Complex sentence: Lewis Binford was raised near the Atlantic coast in rural Virginia where his families usual income came through carpentry-skills he would later put to use as a graduate student when he started his own contracting business.
Split into simpler sentences: Lewis Binford was raised near the Atlantic coast in rural Virginia. His family's usual income came through carpentry, and he put his own skills in this area to use as a graduate student when he started his own contracting business.