Despite the scarcity of resources in Siam, the coastal ports and cities, as well as those at the river mouth, were among the early economic centers.

Despite the scarcity of sources, if his date of birth is accepted as that given above or at least within the window between 375 and 385 it can be seen that Orosius grew up during a period of cultural flourishing along with Hydatius and the Ávitos.

Despite Gallic willingness to supply Hannibal, he found that the size of his army was becoming a burden on the local communities resulting in a " daily increasing scarcity.

Despite their rarity and their short lives they are heavily represented among the stars visible to the naked eye ; their inherent brightness trumps their scarcity.

Despite the reasonable success of this move, Livid was now in direct competition with Sydney's Homebake festival and the nation-wide Big Day Out, and citing a " scarcity of headline acts on this year ’ s international festival touring circuit ", the event's promoters announced that the show would not he held in 2004.

Despite amateur production and scarcity, these zines quickly achieved a near-legendary status among their audience.

Despite the archaeological discoveries, the Garden Tomb has become a popular place of pilgrimage among Protestants.

Despite the fact that the ancient Jewish historian Josephus, as well as other sources, refers to the crucifixion of thousands of people by the Romans, there is only a single archaeological discovery of a crucified body dating back to the Roman Empire around the time of Jesus.

Despite this the number of castle excavations fell between 1974 and 1984, with the archaeological work focusing on conducting excavations on a greater number of small scale, but fewer large scale sites.

Despite its evident progress and usefulness, today's quantitative archaeology is often inadequately represented in archaeological training and education.

Despite its short course, the Boyne has historical, archaeological and mythical connotations.

Despite this, the actual identity of the Sea Peoples has remained enigmatic and modern scholars have only the scattered records of ancient civilizations and archaeological analysis to inform them.

Despite this period of increased archaeological activity, the Carians still appear not to have been an autochthonous group of Anatolia since both the coastal and interior regions of Caria were virtually unoccupied throughout prehistoric times.

Despite the restoration, no archaeological excavations were carried out.

Despite there being no archaeological artifacts nor documents which would date the Tower to the pre-Colonial period, several writers have advanced ideas about the tower's origin apart from the now mainstream windmill theory.

Despite some suggestive archaeological finds and a corroboration by the tenth-century monk Chernorizets Hrabar that ancient Slavs wrote in " strokes and incisions ", the exact nature of this system is unknown.

Despite universal agreement among historians that Drake landed on the west coast of North America, the exact location of New Albion has been the subject of several theories: the only confirmed sixteenth-century archaeological evidence being pieces of porcelain found at Drakes Bay.

Despite the importance of the country to three major religions, serious archaeological research only began in the 15th century.

Despite the heavy criticism, he never vented his frustration on the archaeological profession as he said in the Chronicle program " I just keep reporting what I find ".

Despite a lack of archaeological and historical evidence, Hindu scriptures mention Parashurama, as its creator ( see: Skanda Purana: Sahyadrikhanda ).

Despite its many limitations ( compared to later methods it is inaccurate ; it can only be used on organic matter ; it is reliant on a dataset to corroborate it ; and it only works with remains from the last 10, 000 years ), the technique brought about a revolution in archaeological understanding.

Despite the presence of numerous archaeological evidences of early habitation, Olten is first documented in 1201 as Oltun.

Despite this, he set the fence and custody of the place, and built new footings on the archaeological architecture.

Despite about what most people believe, there are only two places of interest positioned exactly on the equator: The Catequilla archaeological site, and the Quitsato Sundial.

Despite the lack of archaeological remains, the age of Kediri saw much development in classical literature.

Despite the process of Romanization that especially effected some of the bigger cities, the Liburnians saved their traditions, cults, typical funeral monuments ( Liburnian cipus ), names etc., as attested by the archaeological material from those ages .< ref > M.

Despite Romanization, especially in larger cities, Liburnians retained their traditions, cults, burial customs ( Liburnian cipus ), names etc., as attested by the archaeological evidence from those ages .< ref > M.

Despite this, there is much that we do not know about this religion, and what is currently known about it comes mainly from the available archaeological evidence.

Despite this and other hearsay evidence, there were no actual facts to go upon.

Despite the study of model plants and increasing use of DNA evidence, there is ongoing work and discussion among taxonomists about how best to classify plants into various taxa.

Despite Sihanouk's allegations, there is no evidence that this coup was planned by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

Despite the difficult relations between the local Cubans and the new Europeans, some cooperation was in evidence.

Despite this comparison, a fragment of a non-Christian parchment Codex of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt demonstrates that the surviving evidence is insufficient to conclude whether Christians played a major, if not central, role in the development of early codices, or if they simply adopted the format to distinguish themselves from Jews.

Despite rumors to the contrary, there is no scientific evidence linking cycling with testicular cancer.

Despite the increasing evidence of a military build-up on Cuba, no U-2 flights were made over Cuba from September 5 until October 14.

Despite this opinion among researchers, evidence has accumulated that supports the existence of complex biological effects of weaker non-thermal electromagnetic fields, ( including weak ELF magnetic fields, although the latter does not strictly qualify as EM radiation < ref >), and modulated RF and microwave fields.

Despite the deep erosion of the valleys, the surrounding uplands show little evidence of glaciation, suggesting that the ice was thin, or at least unable to cause much erosion at these higher altitudes.

Despite this, " there is ample evidence that the medieval clergy were the main practitioners of magic and therefore the owners, transcribers, and circulators of grimoires " while several grimoires were actually attributed to various Popes.

Despite numerous similarities in phrasing and factual errors, the court found the evidence inadequate and dismissed the case.

Despite these high-profile reports from Arkansas and Florida and sporadic reports elsewhere in the historic range of the species since the 1940s, there is no conclusive evidence for the continued existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker ; i. e., there are no unambiguous photographs, videos, specimens or DNA samples from feathers or feces of the Ivory-billed.

Despite some claims that the word kiosk originally came from the Swahili language, all evidence points to a Middle Persian origin.

Despite the clear evidence that all the ancient ruins in Maldives are Buddhist, Heyerdahl claimed that early " sun-worshiping seafarers ", called the " Redin ", first settled on the islands.

Despite the subjects ' own expectations of consensus, interpretations of the commandments showed wide ranges of variation, with little evidence of consensus.

Despite the great number of geometric microliths that have been found in Western Europe, few examples show any clear evidence of their use, and all the examples are from the Mesolithic or Neolithic periods.

Despite Strabo's conviction of a lie, the perimeter said to have been given by Pytheas is not evidence of it.

Despite Macdonald's claims that he was innocent, evidence came to light showing receipts of money from Allan to Macdonald and some of his political colleagues.

Despite the lack of observational evidence for proton decay, some grand unification theories, such as the Georgi – Glashow model, require it.

Despite these data and later evidence that proteolytically digested proteins yielded only oligopeptides, the idea that proteins were linear, unbranched polymers of amino acids was not accepted immediately.

Despite some valid criticisms of the early experiments, there has been no evidence of fraud.

Despite the proviso that the Court was for disputes " which cannot be satisfactorily settled by diplomacy ", the Court never required evidence that diplomatic discussions had been attempted before bringing the case.

Despite this association with the remains of a large carnivorous dinosaur, the vertebra shows no evidence that it was chewed on by the dinosaur.

Despite some similarities between these two causes, the creation science movement represented a shift from overtly religious to covertly religious objections to evolutionary theory — raising what it claimed to be scientific evidence in support of a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Despite rumours of devil worship and other dark arts being practised during the meetings, there is no evidence to prove this.