I’m in college, and I’m currently taking an anthropology course. Now, this course isn’t your standard anthropology course because it’s focused heavily on the data science aspect of anthropology. This is something new to me. Before this year, I never tried out data science, but it was one taste and I was hooked. Now, I’m really delving into the code of it all, and I’ve refound my coding passion. So, over the next couple of months, I’ll probably publish even more articles incorporating a mix of anthropology and data science, and I hope y’all enjoy that!

Now for the main attraction. I’ve created a map of different societies and their primary domesticated animals. If you click the icon, you’ll also see some other important information relevant to the things I’m studying (which I’ll elucidate in further blog posts… hopefully).

Map Permalink: https://brandonsvoid.com/projects/anthro_map/mapa

Github Repo: https://github.com/brandonrford/anthro_map

Header Image:

• The header image for this article was created by Pixabay user Pixel-Sepp and is licensed under the Pixabay license.

Map Icon Sources:

• The chicken icon for the map was created by Symbolon for the Noun Project and is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License.
• The reindeer icon for the map was created by BomSymbols for the Noun Project and is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License.
• The camel icon for the map was created by Doodle Icons for the Noun Project and is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License.
• The sheep icon for the map was created by KonKapp for the Noun Project and is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License.
• The cow icon for the map was created by KonKapp for the Noun Project and is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License.
• The horse icon for the map was created by KonKapp for the Noun Project and is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License.
• The pig icon for the map was created by KonKapp for the Noun Project and is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License.

Data Sources:

• All categorical data is from D-Place, specific citations are below.
• All location data is from Glottolog, specific citation is below.

Data Citations:

Murdock, G. P., & Morrow, D. O. (1970). Subsistence economy and supportive practices: Cross-cultural codes 1. Ethnology, 9(3), 302-330

Murdock, G. P., & Morrow, D. O. (1970). Subsistence economy and supportive practices: Cross-cultural codes 1. Ethnology, 9(3), 302-330

Murdock (1962-1971); Gray (1999)

Rosenblatt, P. C., Walsh, R. P., & Jackson, D. A. (2011). Grief and mourning codes. World Cultures eJournal, 18(2)

Glottolog Citation:

Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2021.

Glottolog 4.4.

Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4761960

(Available online at http://glottolog.org, Accessed on 2021-10-24.)

Python Packages Used:

Folium (map tool)

Folium

Licensed under an MIT License, copyright Rob Story

Branca (legend tool)

Branca

Licensed under an MIT License, copyright Martin Journois

Pandas (dataset wrangler)

Pandas

The pandas development team. pandas-dev/pandas: Pandas. Latest. Zenodo, Oct. 2021. 10.5281/zenodo.3509134. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3509134.

Data structures for statistical computing in python, McKinney, Proceedings of the 9th Python in Science Conference, Volume 445, 2010.