Annual rituals of conflict

There will be a negative association between cultural complexity and level of and level of ritualization (864).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
tau-b	`UNKNOWN`	p<.01	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Cultural Complexity	Independent	`NONE`
Level Of Ritualization	Dependent	Ingroup Antagonisms, Ritual

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Davis, William N.	1964	"As predicted, simple local communities and simple states (i.e. a low level of political complexity) tended to be associated with a high frequency of drunkenness while complex communities and complex states were related to a lower frequency of drunkenness" (36)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Precourt, Walter	1975	"Initiation ceremonies will exist at the tribal level of socio-cultural complexity while secret societies will exist in chiefdoms" (239)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1973	"Bilateral descent strongly predominates at the level of Low Complexity, . . . its incidence declines in the middle ranges, especially sharply at the Upper Middle level, but rises to nearly 50 per cent among the cultures of highest complexity" (391-392)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1978	Speech communities further from the equator will be positively associated with the level of societal complexity (364)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Otterbein, Keith F.	1965	". . . the higher the level of political complexity the less frequently feuding is found" (1476)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author