This paper addresses itself to predicting variation in residence in a world
wide sample of hunter-gatherers. The findings indicate that some subsist
ence, demographic, and social environmental factors, suggested by previous
theory and research, predict the tendency toward patrilocality versus
matrilocality and the tendency toward unilocality versus bilocality. Im
plications for the reconstruction of hunter-gatherer life in the Paleolithic
are briefly discussed.
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