Further cultural subdivisions according to tool types, such as Olduwan or Mousterian or Levalloisian help archaeologists and other anthropologists in understanding major trends in the human past.

Burkina Faso's 15, 3 million people belong to two major West African cultural groups — the Gur ( Voltaic ) and the Mandé.

Besieged several times during its history, Barcelona has a rich cultural heritage and is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination.

Indeed, it is a major cultural and economic centre in southwestern Europe ( Iberian Peninsula ), 26th in the world ( after Moscow, before Dubai ) and a growing financial centre ( Diagonal Mar and Gran Via ).

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

He joined Throop's board of trustees in 1907, and soon began developing it and the whole of Pasadena into a major scientific and cultural destination.

It is still a major destination for cultural tourism, and many people visit his grave and the surrounding temples.

The theory of electronic colonialism extends the issue to global cultural issues and the impact of major multi-media conglomerates, ranging from Viacom, Time-Warner, Disney, News Corp, Sony, to Google and Microsoft with the focus on the hegemonic power of these mainly United States-based communication giants.

Other major critiques are that the term is not defined well, and employs further terms that are not defined well, and therefore lacks explanatory power, that cultural imperialism is hard to measure, and that the theory of a legacy of colonialism is not always true.

It is now a major tourist destination with several cultural and community facilities, including the Cheddar Show Caves Museum.

Leontyev had seen human action as a result of biological as well as cultural evolution and, drawing on Marx's materialist conception of culture, stressed that individual cognition always is part of social action which in turn is mediated by man-made tools ( cultural artifacts ), language and other man-made systems of symbols, which he viewed as a major distinguishing feature of human culture and, thus, human cognition.

3 major contexts to consider when analysing child psychology are: social context, cultural context, and socioeconomic context.

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

At that time Pergamon was a major cultural and intellectual centre, noted for its library ( Eumenes II ), second only to that in Alexandria,

The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th century and early 19th century when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, and transport affected socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain and subsequently spread throughout Europe and North America and eventually the world, a process that continues as industrialisation.

At the time, the Byzantine Empire was experiencing a major military and cultural revival ; despite its later decline, its culture would have a continuous influence on the development of Russia in its formative centuries.

Immigration to the United States is a complex demographic phenomenon that has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States.

Isabella d ' Este ( 19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539 ) was Marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure.

She was also one of the first major science fiction writers to take slash fiction and its cultural and literary implications seriously.

"' Forever Changes ' is also an album that heralds the last days of a golden age and anticipates the growing ugliness that would dominate the counterculture in 1968 and 1969 ... ' Forever Changes ' is inarguably Love's masterpiece and an album of enduring beauty, but it's also one of the few major works of its era that saw the dark clouds looming on the cultural horizon, and the result was music that was as prescient as it was compelling.

After World War II, Leipzig became a major urban centre within the Communist German Democratic Republic but its cultural and economic importance declined.

Many azulejos chronicle major historical and cultural aspects of Portuguese history.

Micronesia is one of three major cultural areas in the Pacific Ocean.

Communication is usually described along a few major dimensions: Message ( what type of things are communicated ), source / emisor / sender / encoder ( by whom ), form ( in which form ), channel ( through which medium ), destination / receiver / target / decoder ( to whom ), and Receiver.

At the edge of the range is the Monteverde cloud forest preserve, a major ecotourism destination.

Brazil, with its vast territory, was the major destination of African slaves, receiving 38. 5 % of all slaves sent by ships across the Atlantic Ocean.

Fuerteventura, with its 3, 000 sunshine hours a year, was placed firmly on the world stage as a major European holiday destination.

The city is a major tourist destination for both domestic and overseas visitors ; Hamburg ranked 16th in the world for livability in 2011, and, in 2010, the city ranked 10th in the world.

Between major cities, especially on Sumatra, Java, and Bali, services are frequent and direct ; many services are available with no stops until the final destination.

In the 1950s the primary destination was to the United Kingdom ; but since the United Kingdom restricted emigration in 1962, major flow has been to the United States and Canada.

The global economic crisis hit the Lesotho economy hard through loss of textile exports and jobs in the sector due largely to the economic slowdown in the United States which is a major export destination, reduced diamond mining and exports, including weak prices for diamonds ; drop in SACU revenues due to the economic slowdown in the South African economy, and reduction in worker remittances due to weakening of the South African economy and contraction of the mining sector and related job losses in South Africa.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Balaton became a major tourist destination for ordinary working Hungarians and especially for subsidised holiday excursions for union members.

The establishment of legalized gambling and lenient marriage and divorce proceedings in the 20th century transformed Nevada into a major tourist destination.

Warsaw's airport is the main international hub for LOT Polish Airlines and currently serves as the destination for around 75 % of all major international flights into Poland.

The 1930s was an era of public works and reinvention of the Republic's economy, with the construction of the San Marino-Rimini railway that connected it to the Italian railway network and modernization of the country's infrastructures that paved the way to its present status as a major tourist destination.

The country remains a major global tourist and foreign direct investment destination but a few countries play a more significant role than the rest.

However, Venice's popularity as a major worldwide tourist destination has caused several problems, including the fact that the city can be very overcrowded at some points of the year.

Located in the western suburbs of the French capital, from the centre of Paris, Versailles is in the 21st century a wealthy suburb of Paris with a service based economy and a major touristic destination as well.

* Since the establishment of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo ( UNMIK ) in 1999, according to some international organizations Kosovo has become a major destination country for women and young girls trafficked into forced prostitution.

The population of the island swells substantially during the main holiday seasons, though it is still not a major tourist destination due to its relative remoteness.

The town continued to grow throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, becoming a centre for Norwegian textile and garment industry, as well as the administrative center for the region, and a major tourist destination.

A vast fortress-like monastery, Montmajour Abbey, was built on an island just north of Arles, and became a major destination for medieval pilgrims.

Clark County is today known as a major tourist destination, with 150, 000 hotel and motel rooms.

Charing Cross Road the main route from the north ( which becomes the east side of Trafalgar Square ) was named after the railway station, which was a major destination for traffic, rather than for the original cross.