The end of the period is marked by the abandonment of the cities and a return to lifestyles based on farming villages and semi-nomadic herding, although specialised craft production continued and trade routes remained open.

Some of the oldest surviving European ship models have been those of early craft such as galleys, galleons, and possibly carracks, dating from the 12th through the 15th centuries and found occasionally mounted in churches, where they were used in ceremonies to bless ships and those who sailed in them, or as votive offerings for successful voyages or surviving peril at sea, a practice which remained common in Catholic countries until the 19th century.

In a period of industrial development and modernization in urban areas, logging remained a traditional business in which the workers exhibited pride in their craft, their physical strength and masculinity, and guarded their individualism.

The fleet post office, supply depot, fuel depot, degaussing range, ECM repair facility, and naval training schools for small craft, fire fighters, merchant ship communications, and anti-submarine attack remained at San Pedro through World War II ; but the battle fleet never returned.

Despite the appearance of competitors, the company remained the largest " craft beer " company in the United States with nearly 141 million liters ( 1. 2 million barrels ) sold in 1996.

The craft-based AFL had been slow to organize industrial workers, and the federation remained steadfastly committed to craft unionism.

Though censured by the city council, he remained safe through his popularity with the craft guilds.

While honing her craft at the Actors Studio, Thomas remained active on other fronts.

After a lengthy trip in suspended animation, their craft was attacked by Scourge, and crashed in the Arctic, where Jetfire was frozen in an avalanche, and Omega remained in stasis in the crashed ship.

The new Soyuz remained docked as a lifeboat craft for the then current crew of three ( two Russian and one American ) astronauts.

By the onset of the Early Middle Ages, rigging had undergone a fundamental transformation in Mediterranean navigation: the lateen which had long evolved on smaller Greco-Roman craft replaced the square rig, the chief sail type of the ancients, that practically disappeared from the record until the 14th century ( while it remained dominant in northern Europe ).

The craft remained attached to VMS Eve as planned, and underwent a series of combined vehicle systems tests.

Australia continued to support the UN peacekeeping operation with between 1, 500 and 2, 000 personnel, as well as landing craft and Blackhawk helicopters and remained the largest contributor of personnel to the peacekeeping mission.

The orbiting craft monitored the lighting at the poles and looked for seasonal variations, in order to attempt to confirm that they remained illuminated during their lunar winter.

The greater part of the Ukrainian fleet remained in Sevastopol-there were 30 destroyers and torpedo boats, 25 auxiliaries, 7 battleships and small craft as well as 15 submarines left in Sevastopol under Admiral Myhaylo Ostrogradskiy who in this situation assumed command.

Despite this, Spike chose to return Maximus's body to the Ark, where it remained until the craft was crashed in 1991 by the Autobot medic, Ratchet, during the clash between Megatron and Galvatron.

The bomoh's craft remained largely unchanged even after Islam became dominant until the Islamic revival in the 1970s and 80s.

McDonald declared that scientific scrutiny should be directed towards the small number of " unknowns ", which he defined as a UFO reported by a " credible and trained observer as machine-like ' craft ' which remained unidentified in spite of careful investigation.

Margosatubig, in spite of being a pioneer town, still remained isolated and reachable only by sea craft.

It is a Hughes HS-376 craft, and was launched from the Guiana Space Centre in December 2000 to join Astra 2A and Astra 2B at 28. 2 ° E, where it has remained for its active life.

In a few days we took up our line of march for Baltimore ; we remained in that city for some days, when small craft was prepared for our reception to proceed to Annapolis, where the French transports were waiting for the French army to embark.

But DALUs remained few in number until the early 1930s when the Congress of Industrial Organizations ( CIO ) challenged the AFL's craft unionism policies.

By the onset of the Early Middle Ages, rigging had undergone a fundamental transformation in Mediterranean navigation: the lateen which had long evolved on smaller Greco-Roman craft replaced the square rig, the chief sail type of the ancients, which practically disappeared from the record until the 14th century ( while it remained dominant in northern Europe ).

It is primarily a low-level bridge which possesses an elevated span with a vertical clearance of in the middle of the river to permit small craft to pass.

Helium was primarily used as a lifting gas in lighter-than-air craft.

The Germans had no specialised landing craft, and had to rely primarily on river barges to lift troops and supplies for the landing.

This new yard was primarily used as a coaling station by Atlantic Fleet small craft.

The line was constructed primarily by Irish labor who had learned their craft during the recent Civil War.

The ships are generally designed to transport troops into a war zone by sea, primarily using landing craft, although invariably they also have the capability to operate transport helicopters.

Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact, but is not primarily written in service to its craft.

The Congress of Industrial Organizations ( CIO ) primarily practiced a form of industrial unionism prior to its 1955 merger with the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ), which was made up mostly of craft unions.

In keeping with the craft concept, FLUs were designed primarily for organizing purposes, with the membership destined to be distributed among the AFL's craft unions after the majority of workers in an industry were organized.

Industrial unionism thence proceeded primarily by combining craft unions into industrial formations, rather than through the birth of new industrial organizations.

Fishing, swimming, sailing, wind surfing, waterskiing, boating, and riding personal water craft are all popular activities, primarily in the summer.

At the Kunstgewerbeschule, Frutiger primarily concentrated on calligraphy — a craft favouring the nib and the brush, instead of drafting tools.

In this zone the Lezgins engaged primarily in animal husbandry ( mostly sheep and goats ) and in craft industries.

Thus, within a decade of the founding of the CIO, unions that had been primarily craft unions, such as the International Association of Machinists, originally a railroad union with much of its membership in the construction industry, began to make serious efforts to organize on an industrial basis as well.

Judging by Big Fau's streamlined appearance, its turbine wrists, its ability to travel effortlessly through the water, its conning tower shaped head as well as a conning tower on its back, and the flexible periscope-like laser cannons on its back, it is likely that Big Fau units were used primarily for naval combat, functioning as heavily armed amphibious craft, and providing ocean-based combat support for land-and air-based megadeuses.

An aerostat ( From Greek ἀήρ aer ( air ) + στατός statos ( standing ) through French ) is a craft that remains aloft primarily through the use of buoyant lighter than air gases, which impart lift to a vehicle with nearly the same overall density as air.

Pottery-making is the only craft that is primarily a female activity ; men usually fashion pots or pipes depicting anthropomorphic or zoomorphic figures.

The course primarily comprises field craft instruction ; students plan and execute daily patrolling, perform reconnaissance, ambushes, and raids against dispersed targets, followed by stealthy movement to a new patrol base to plan the next mission.

Originally built for transportation, this canal is now used primarily for pleasure craft like waterbikes and canoes, on the southern end on the east side there is also bike trails.

Laser craft are those who are primarily designed to employ laser weaponry against air and ground targets.

Observation craft are designed to maintain observation over land, primarily territory either held by enemy forces or susceptible to infiltration.

The White Star was regarded as being amongst the smallest ships in the Babylon 5 universe which had the capability of opening its own hyperspace portals ( known as " jump points ") rather than relying on the jump gates already at a location used primarily by civilian craft, or upon jump points created by larger allied craft.