Abstract
Membership within a residential group is not stable in hunter-gatherer societies, such as those of the San, Mbuti Pygmy, Hadza, Hare Indian, Inuit, Orochon, and Ainu. The purpose of this study was to investigate the connections among the settlement size, number of house sites, and settlement stability time.
The average number of houses of settlement had strong correlation with the number of house sites with a correlation coefficient of r=0.968. The settlement stability time had good correlation with the average number of houses of settlement with a correlation coefficient of r=0.685. The settlement stability time had good correlation with the number of house sites with a correlation coefficient of r=0.677.
