Climatic Instability, Food Storage, and the Development of Numerical Counting: A Cross-Cultural Study
| Autor: | William Tulio Divale |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
060101 anthropology
05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Food storage Ethnic group 06 humanities and the arts 050701 cultural studies Geography Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology Cross-cultural Famine 0601 history and archaeology Psychology (miscellaneous) Precipitation Economic geography Traditional society Demography |
| Zdroj: | Cross-Cultural Research. 33:341-368 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3578 1069-3971 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/106939719903300403 |
| Popis: | A model is proposed that explains the variability in counting systems found in traditional societies. Societies that live in areas of climatic instability, in terms of temperature and precipitation extremes, tend to have periodic starvation and famine, which in turn stimulates societies to store and preserve food. The need to store and preserve food during one season for use in another stimulates societies to develop abilities to count to higher numbers in order to accurately estimate food storage requirements. This model is successfully tested cross-culturally on two separate worldwide samples (N= 69 andN = 136 respectively). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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