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About the GCBS
Database
The GCBS Database contains 41 sets of numerically coded genealogical censuses for band societies around the world spanning a period of two centuries. All are in formats that facilitate computer assisted data analysis. The GCBS Database contains genealogical records for 6717 living people and 2218 deceased ancestors, plus censuses of approximately 2138 discrete residential units including households, camps or villages and larger regional populations at one or more points in time. These datasets can be analyzed from many perspectives to learn just what was or was not happening within the social organization of hunter-gatherer bands when they were first studied by Western social scientists. The GCBS Database emerged directly from the Alyawarra project, and genealogical censuses from the Alyawarra project were the first datasets entered in the GCBS Database.
All files below are in Adobe Acrobat .PDF format.
Documents
- Manual (769 KB)
- Statistical Summary (284 KB)
Africa
- AF01 Kung 1952 (82 KB)
- AF02 Mbuti Camps 1957 (75 KB)
- AF03 Mbuti Village 1957 (63 KB)
Asia
- AS01 Ainu 1880-85 (61 KB)
- AS02 Chenchu 1940 (71 KB)
- AS03 Semang 1925,50 (80 KB)
- AS04 Vedda 1905 (55 KB)
Australia
- AU01 Alyawarra 1971 (491 KB)
- AU02 Gundangborn 1948 (61.5 KB)
- AU03 Miwuyt 1967 (58.7 KB)
- AU04 Ngatatjara 1966 (59.3 KB)
- AU05 Wanindiljuagwa 1941 (76.8 KB)
- AU06 Wanindiljuagwa 1948 (62.8 KB)
Europe
- EU01 Lapp Konkama 1951 (63.5 KB)
- EU02 Lapp Konkama 1931,44,51 (71 KB)
- EU03 Lapp Lainiovouma 1952 (61.1 KB)
North American Indian
- ND01 Apache 1932 (61.9 KB)
- ND02 Apache 1935 (62.5 KB)
- ND03 Apache 1936 (72.3 KB)
- ND04 Dogrib 1911,25,59 (71.5 KB)
- ND05 Hare 1956 (56.7 KB)
- ND06 Kutchin 1947 (60.7 KB)
- ND07 Ojibwa 1930 (62.9 KB)
- ND08 Ojibwa 1949 (63 KB)
- ND09 Paiute 1880 (64.3 KB)
- ND10 Shoshoni 1860,90 (63.0 KB)
- ND11 Shoshoni 1880 (64.0 KB)
- ND12 Slavey 1911,51 (61.5 KB)
North American Inuit
- Inuit Regional Summary (156 KB)
Eastern Arctic
- NU01 Angmagsalik 1884 (122 KB)
- NU02 Labrador 1776 (124 KB)
- NU03 Takamiut 1927,64 (107 KB)
- NU04 Belcher Island 1958,61 (121 KB)
Central Arctic
- David Damas re: NU05-NU10 (410 KB)
- NU05 Iglulik 1921,22 (138 KB)
- NU06 Iglulik 1949 (133 KB)
- NU07 Iglulik 1961 (137 KB)
- NU08 Iglulik 1961 Seasonal Cycle (131 KB)
- NU09 Netsilik 1922,23 (131 KB)
- NU10 Copper 1922,23 (129 KB)
Alaskan Region
- NU11 Nunamiut 1885,95 (126 KB)
- NU12 Nunamiut + Tareumiut 1900,15 (115 KB)
- NU13 Nunamiut 1960 (118 KB)