Modeling Group Size and Scalar Stress by Logistic Regression from an Archaeological Perspective

What is it about?

This study aims at modelling the relation between scalar stress (i.e., increasing level of one-to-one communication stress as the number of involved subjects increases) and group size by means of logistic regression. The overaching goal is to predict the probability of reaching a critical threshold of scalar stress knowing the size of a human group.

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Why is it important?

Scalar stress has been (and continues to be) a useful theorethical framework for archaeological and anthropological theory in that it provides the framework in which many aspects of past communities' dynamics can be better understood. In fact, scalar stress, and the remedies to counteract it, has ramification in many facets of human social behaviour, such as ceramic style, rituals, social organization, communal food consumption, public architecture and settlements organization.