Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol/Iss. 15 (14) PNAS license Published In Pages: 3628-3633
By Sheehan, Oliver, Watts, Joseph, Gray, Russell D. , Atkinson, Quentin D.

Hypothesis

Social stratification and political complexity (representing hierarchy) and landesque capital intensive agiriculture (representing general intensive agriculture) will be consistent with reciprocal relationship or with association due to another variable.

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Bayes factorSupportedUNKNOWNUNKNOWNUNKNOWN