Population band groups social groups by roughly how many people belong to them. Wikipedia notes hunter-gatherer societies were "usually a tribe of only a few dozen people," a scale far smaller than the "sedentary and more populous agricultural societies" that eventually displaced most of them. This dimension lets a visitor compare societies of a similar size.
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Established Era Primary Discipline no reliable modern population figure exists
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1. Wikipedia: Human Relations Area Files
WikipediaHuman Relations Area Files, lead section, founding sentence
A financially autonomous research agency based at Yale University since 1949, its mission is to promote understanding of cultural diversity and commonality in the past and present.
Human Relations Area Files, lead section, anthropologist sentence
Documents in both eHRAF databases are subject-indexed at the paragraph level by HRAF anthropologists.
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