Secondary Disposal of the Dead: Cross-Cultural Codes

Nomadic bands will be more likely to exhibit secondary treatment than sedentary societies (88)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher’s exact test	Not Supported	p<.05 in the opposite direction	`UNKNOWN`	two tail

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Settlement Patterns	Independent	Settlement Patterns
Secondary Disposal	Dependent	Burial Practices And Funerals, Mourning, Special Burial Practices And Funerals

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Schroeder, Sissel	2001	Secondary disposal will be related to food shortage (89)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Schroeder, Sissel	2001	The incidence of secondary disposal will be low in sedentary societies (88)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Schroeder, Sissel	2001	Secondary disposal will occur more frequently among logistically mobile hunter-gatherers than among residentially mobile hunter-gatherers (88)	Not Supported, but in predicted direction	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"When secondary or tertiary relatives of any kin-type are called by a kinship term used to denote a primary relative, the daughters of such secondary or tertiary relatives tend to be called by the same kinship term as the daughter of the primary relative" (139)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Barber, Nigel	2012	Population enrollment in post-secondary education will tend to be associated with lower religiosity.	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author