The Binford Hunter-Gatherer dataset describes cultural practices for 339 hunter-gatherer groups. Approximately two-thirds of the societies described by Binford are also described in the Ethnographic Atlas. However, the Binford database includes a number of societies not in the Ethnographic Atlas, including many in Australia and northern North America.
Lewis R. Binford. (2024). D-PLACE dataset derived from Binford 2001 'Constructing Frames of Reference' (v3.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1331936310.5281/zenodo.13319363
Binford, L. 2001. Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Hunter-gatherer and Environmental Data Sets. University of California Press
| Period | % of datapoints |
|---|---|
| before 1800 | 1 |
| 1800 - 1899 | 59 |
| 1900 - 1950 | 23 |
| after 1950 | 13 |
| NA | 1 |
| Category | number of variables |
|---|---|
| Community organization | 13 |
| Kinship | 11 |
| Marriage | 11 |
| Subsistence | 9 |
| Economy | 8 |
| Property | 7 |
| Demography | 7 |
| Politics | 6 |
| Population | 6 |
| Settlement | 6 |
| Anthropometry | 4 |
| Leadership | 2 |
| Class | 1 |
| Labour | 1 |
| Wealth transactions | 1 |
| Housing | 1 |
