The origin of the state: land productivity or appropriability?

The location of ancient cities may be positively associated with the availability of wild relatives of domesticated cereal crops.

Ancient cities are used as a proxy for hierarchical complexity.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Ordinary least squares regression	Supported	p< .01	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Wild Relatives of Cereal Grain	Independent	Flora
Ancient cities	Dependent	Territorial Hierarchy, Cities

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Mayshar, Joram	2022	Hierarchical complexity in the classical age (450 CE) may be positively associated with the presence of wild relatives of cereal grains.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Carol R.	1983	Intensive agriculture will be positively associated with cereal crops (288)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"In the presence of matrilocal or avunculocal residence, terms for primary relatives tend to be extended, within the same generation, to their collateral relatives through females" (149)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Farber, Bernard	1975	The presence of factional regimes will be related to the clustering of relatives in the household and community (879).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Mayshar, Joram	2022	Societies relying mainly on cereal crops for subsistence may be positively associated with jurisdictional hierarchy beyond the local level.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author