he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony.
Examples of inhabitation
inhabitation
Inhabitation of Chester continued on a lesser scale once the legions had left.
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The sizable western part Fiordland is almost empty of permanent human inhabitation.
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Evidence of hominid inhabitation of the Rock dates back to the Neanderthals.
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Like Manra, Orona contains evidence of prehistoric Polynesian inhabitation.
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He concedes Washington's Mima Prairie doesn't show direct evidence of gopher inhabitation.
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Evidence of inhabitation at the site has been discovered to date back to roughly 600 BCE.
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Hominin inhabitation of the Iberian Peninsula dates from the Paleolithic.
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Yet most of the period of human inhabitation of Britain has little to do with who we are now.
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But fossilised waffle remains suggest inhabitation since 100,000BC.
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Inhabitancy: the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony"