Can Religion Drive Economic Complexification in Early Human Societies? A Cross-Cultural Analysis of North American Archaeological Data

The presence of religious specialists will be positively associated with food storage (11)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Correlational analysis	Supported	p=.028	r=.448	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Food Storage	Association	Preservation And Storage Of Food
Religious Specialists	Association	Magicians And Diviners, Prophets And Ascetics, Priesthood

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Watts, Joseph	2022	Food storage will be positively associated with professional religious specialists (6)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Watts, Joseph	2022	Professional religious specialists will be more likely to be found in societies with higher, rather than lower, pathogen load (6)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Watts, Joseph	2022	Professional religious specialists will be more likely to be found in societies with unpredictable environments (6)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Watts, Joseph	2022	Less rich environments will predict more professional religious specialists (6)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Watts, Joseph	2022	Social inequality and professional religious specialists will be positively associated (6)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author