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

There will be a positive association between slavery and mining/quarrying, smelting, or metalworking.

Note

Mining/quarrying, smelting, and metalworking were all found to have a significant correlation to slavery, with metalworking having the strongest relationship to slavery.

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Pearson correlationSupportedp < 0.001 for each variableUNKNOWNTwo-tailed

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
MetalworkingIndependentMetallurgy
SlaveryDependentSlavery
Mining/QuarryingIndependentMining And Quarrying
SmeltingIndependentMetallurgy