Societies

Use the icons on the right to switch between a searchable map vs. searchable table of societies. A “society” in D-PLACE is a group of people whose cultural practices were documented at particular time and place, and who generally share a dialect or language, which is often different from that of neighbouring groups (more details here). Selecting a particular society (point) on the map will take you to a page containing all data available for that society. To view the geographic distribution of societies within a particular society set, you can select that set from the table below. To search for a society by name, language, focal year, or the name of a geographic region, please use the table-based search.
Society set Societies Reference
Binford 2001 'Constructing Frames of Reference' 339 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.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
Robert L. Carneiro's Dataset (6th edition) 72 Carneiro, R. L. (2024). D-PLACE dataset derived from Robert L. Carneiro's Dataset (6th edition) (v3.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13325962
Bertolo et al. 2023 'Cross-cultural music corpus: The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography' 410 Mila Bertolo, Martynas Snarskis, Manvir Singh, & Samuel Mehr. (2024). D-PLACE dataset derived from Bertolo et al. 2023 'Cross-cultural music corpus: The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography' (v3.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13319593 Mila Bertolo, Martynas Snarskis, Manvir Singh, & Samuel Mehr. (2023, August 8). Cross-cultural music corpus: The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8378337
Murdock et al. 1999 'Ethnographic Atlas' 1291 Murdock, G. P., R. Textor, H. Barry, I., D. R. White, J. P. Gray, & W. T. Divale. (2024). D-PLACE dataset derived from Murdock et al. 1999 'Ethnographic Atlas' (v3.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13319191 Murdock, G. P., R. Textor, H. Barry, III, D. R. White, J. P. Gray, and W. T. Divale. 1999. Ethnographic Atlas. World Cultures 10:24-136 (codebook)
Murdock and White 1969 'Standard Cross-Cultural Sample' 186 Murdock, G. P., & White, D. R. (2024). D-PLACE dataset derived from Murdock and White 1969 'Standard Cross-Cultural Sample' (v3.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13318864 Murdock GP & White DR. 1969. Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. Ethnology. 9:329–369.
Jorgensen 1980 'Western Indians' 172 Jorgensen, J. (2024). D-PLACE dataset derived from Jorgensen 1980 'Western Indians' (v3.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13318637 Jorgensen, JG. 1980. Western Indians: Comparative Environments, Languages, and Cultures of 172 Western American Indian Tribes. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company.
Id Name Glottocode Language Language family Latitude Longitude Region Societyset