Man’s Relationship to His Environment 
Schematic presentation 
of relationships of com- 
munities and environment 
under conditions of mobi- 
lity, sedentariness and 
urbanity. 
Fig. 1. Mobility. The 
landscape of a watershed 
basin as modified by land- 
and time-use of prehistoric 
hunters’ or food collectors’ 
societies moving from camp 
to camp: integration in a 
given web of life. 
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Fig. 2. Sedentariness. 
The same region as in Fig. 
1 humanized by the bio- 
technic ‘‘invention” of 
sedentariness: conscious 
identification of the com- 
munity with its land. 
Fig. 3. Urbanity. The 
pattern of rural-urban 
regional environment: a 
new social, biological and 
environmental adaptation 
of society to the characteris- 
tics of a watershed basin; 
the coexistence of a variety 
of elements in a_ unified 
regional framework. 

(Drawings by Mrs. Alina 
Yaron). 
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