Did Alcohol Facilitate the Evolution of Complex Societies?

Agriculture will have a strong positive relationship to political complexity

Mean effects of 2.96 and 3.52 for casual models without or with considering environmental productivity

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Bayesian Ordinal Regressions	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Agriculture	Independent	Tillage
Political Complexity	Dependent	Territorial Hierarchy

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Sheehan, Oliver	2018	Landesque capital intensive agriculture (representing general intensive agriculture) will be consistent with a model that has social stratification and political complexity (representing hierarchy) as the dependent variable.	Not Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sheehan, Oliver	2018	Social stratification and political complexity (representing hierarchy) will be consistent with a model that has landesque capital intensive agriculture as the dependent variable.	Partially Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Gavin, Michael C.	2018	Degree of political complexity will be associated with more plant-based agriculture, more animal husbandry, and less foraging (8)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hrnčíř, Václav	2025	Alcohol will be positively associated with levels of political complexity, after considering the effect of agriculture	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sheehan, Oliver	2018	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.	Supported	0	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author