when was less food available

English translation: when less food was available

00:49 Mar 20, 2019

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English term or phrase: when was less food available

If you look at the wall of the shell mound, you can see that food residue such as clams and fish bones are stacked in layers of several centimeters to some dozen centimeters. The layers with many shells and fish indicate the plentiful food consumed in the spring and summer, while layers with more soil indicate the period from autumn to winter **when was less food was available ** This wall traces the remains of the life of the Jomon people in Satohama over a period of 20 years

Should "when was less food was available" be OK? An English Native speaker write this. Thank you.

Mitsuko Yoshida KudoZ activity Questions: 395 (9 open) (17 without valid answers) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 25
Local time: 12:21

Selected answer:when less food was available

Explanation:
one "was" . It looks like a typo

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Note added at 6 mins (2019-03-20 00:55:49 GMT)
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just means that food was more scarce, or harder to find (not as plentiful), in that period (from autumn to winter)

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Note added at 4 days (2019-03-24 10:25:14 GMT) Post-grading
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glad to have helped

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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 04:21

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when less food was available

Yvonne Gallagher

when availability of food was scarce

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón

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9 mins confidence:

when availability of food was scarce

Explanation:
Another way to say it.

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 22:21
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

when less food was available

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 04:21
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PRO pts in category: 129

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Thank you very much!!

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