Correlations of exploitative and settlement patterns

Bulletin of the National Museum of Canada • Vol/Iss. 230 • Published In 1969 • Pages: 129-146 •

By Murdock, George Peter

Abstract

This study examines relationships between subsistence type, population size, and sedentarism. Hunting, gathering, fishing, and herding societies tend to be smaller than horticultural and agricultural societies. Horticulture, agriculture, and fishing societies tend to be more sedentary.

Samples
Sample Used	Coded Data	Comment
Other
Ethnographic Atlas (EA)		Selected cases

Hypotheses (2)
Hypothesis	Supported
"[Size of community is related to subsistence economy]. Local communities tend to be very small in gathering, hunting, pastoral, and fishing societies. . . . Horticulturalists and extensive cereal cultivators occupy . . . larger settlements . . . and intensive agriculturalists [have largest communities]"	Supported
"Societies with gathering, hunting, and pastoral economies tend to be nomadic or seminomadic [while societies with fishing, horticulture and agriculture economies tend to be semisedentary or sedentary]" (144)	Supported

Documents and Hypotheses Filed By: mas Amelia Piazza

Correlations of exploitative and settlement patterns

Bulletin of the National Museum of Canada • Vol/Iss. 230 • Published In 1969 • Pages: 129-146 • Cite

By Murdock, George Peter

Abstract

Samples

Hypotheses (2)

Bulletin of the National Museum of Canada • Vol/Iss. 230 • Published In 1969 • Pages: 129-146 •