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Summary Table

The following table gives a overview of the main menus and submenus. More detailed documents are accessible as pdf-files. These documents in German language are copied from the Atlas of Pre-Colonial Societies (in German).

Main Menus	Submenus
Introduction	Basic Questions Topic of the menus and sub-menus. Approach: Focal question and methodology. Maps: Cartographic representation of cultural units and cultural variables. Comparison
Cultural Heritage (with maps)	Structural complexity of Society Thematic Maps Subsistence Economy: Types of traditional food production Political Hierarchy: Types of socio-political differentiation Agrotechnical Efficciency Index (ATE) Sociopolitical Differenciation Index (SPD) Structural Complexity: Sum of ATE and SPD Family- and Kinship Structures Mode of Marriage: Extent and direction of marriage transactions Family Organization: Marital and household composition; Polygyny Kinship System: Rules of descent Intergenerational Status transfer: Rules of descent, residence, inheritance of land and succession to the office of local headman Lineage Structures Index Patri-/Matrifocality Index Sexual Division of Labor Index Cultural Homogeneity National Fractionalization: Proportion of largest cultural units
Cultural Units (with maps)	Identification Maps Country Documentation: North Africa/West Asia with comments Country Documentation: Middle Asia with comments Country Documentation: South and East Asia with comments Country Documentation: Melanesia with comments Country Documentation: Subsaharan Africa with comments Methodology: Major methodological choices (in German)
Research	Cross-national Analyses on the influence of pre-colonial socialstructures upon post-colonial development; Cross-cultural Analyses on structural regularities and changes in cultural evolution.
Data	Country documentation: Listing and localizing of all cultural units with codes of 52 variables, by countries Documentation of cultural units: Naming and rationale of coding Datamatrix I: 52 cultural indicators of 88 countries Datamatrix II: Anthropological variables (ranked) of 2440 cultural units
About the author	Profile of the main author of the ATLAS