Archaeology of slavery from cross-cultural perspective

Cross-Cultural Research • Vol/Iss. 2017 • Sage • • Published In • Pages: 1-25 •
By Hrnčíř, Václav, Květina, Petr

Hypothesis

Slavery will vary by type of subsistence

Note

Results found the presence of slaves to be rare among hunter-gatherers and horticultural farmers, and more often among fishing. For migratory farmers, presence of slavery depended on tool material. Slavery occurs 50% within pastoralists and hunters, and slightly less often among intensive farmers.

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
AssociationSupportedp < 0.01Cramer's V= 0.485UNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
FishingIndependentFishing
GatheringIndependentCollecting
PastoralismIndependentPastoral Activities
SlaveryDependentSlavery
Hunting and/or marine animalsIndependentHunting And Trapping, Marine Hunting
Anadromous fishingIndependentFishing
Mounted huntingIndependentHunting And Trapping
Shifting cultivation, with diffing sticks or wooden hoesIndependentTillage
Shifting cultivations, with metal hoesIndependentTillage
Horticultural gardens or tree fruitsIndependentTillage, Vegetable Production, Arboriculture
Intensive agriculture, with no plowIndependentTillage
Intensive agriculture, with plowIndependentTillage