Population Strategy Map (By Role)

civilizational (157)

  • Achaemenid + Sasanian Persian
  • Achaemenid Persian
  • Adena
  • Akkadian / Babylonian
  • Aksumite
  • Amhara
  • Ancestral Puebloan
  • Asturian
  • Avestan / Zoroastrian
  • Aztec (Mexica)
  • Ba
  • Bactrian / Greco-Bactrian
  • Balinese Hindu
  • Bamileke
  • Bamum
  • Berber (Amazigh)
  • Bessi / Odrysian
  • Beta Israel (Falasha)
  • Bhutanese (Druk Yul)
  • Boii (Celtic)
  • Bronze-Age Scandinavian
  • Brythonic Britons
  • Bulgarian
  • Burmese (Bamar)
  • Cappadocian Greek
  • Carib (Lesser Antilles)
  • Cañari
  • Chavín
  • Classical Greek
  • Crimean Goth
  • Cypriot
  • Czech / Bohemian
  • Dacian
  • Dai
  • Diaguita
  • Diquís culture
  • Dravidian (Tamil + Malayali)
  • Dál Riata Gaelic
  • East Slavic (Rus)
  • Etruscan
  • Gallic (Arverni)
  • Gallo-Roman
  • Garamantes
  • Garifuna
  • Georgian Christian
  • Gotlandic Norse
  • Greek colonial
  • Guge kingdom
  • Han Chinese (settler)
  • Han imperial
  • Hayato
  • Himyarite
  • Hittite
  • Ifugao
  • Inca
  • Indus Valley (proto-historical)
  • Israelite-Judahite
  • Itzá
  • Javanese
  • Kazakh
  • Khalkha Mongol
  • Kham Tibetan
  • Khmer
  • Kichwa (Ecuadorian)
  • Kikuyu
  • Kyrgyz
  • Lenca
  • Manchu / Jurchen
  • Mauryan + Gupta imperial
  • Maya (Yucatec)
  • Maya Q'eqchi' + K'iche'
  • Median
  • Merina
  • Merovingian Franks
  • Midianite
  • Moche
  • Modern Persian (Shia + Yazidi + Mandaean)
  • Mongol
  • Mycenaean Greek
  • Nabataean
  • Native Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli)
  • Newar
  • Ngāi Tahu
  • Ngāti Tūwharetoa
  • Nok culture
  • Norman / Sicilian
  • Norse (Eastern Settlement)
  • Norse (Faroese)
  • Norse (Old Icelandic)
  • Norse (Trøndelag)
  • Norse (Western Settlement)
  • Numidian
  • Nuragic Sardinian
  • Old + Middle + New Kingdom Egyptian
  • Olmec
  • Palauan
  • Pazyryk Scythian
  • Phoenician
  • Phoenician colonial
  • Phrygian
  • Pictish + Norn (Shetlandic)
  • Pipil-Nicarao
  • Polynesian outlier (Rennell)
  • Portuguese (Azorean)
  • Pre-Islamic Arabian
  • Predynastic Egyptian
  • Proto-Armenian (Vishap-makers)
  • Provençal
  • Ptolemaic + Roman Egypt
  • Roman
  • Ryukyuan (Okinawan)
  • Saka / Scythian
  • Sakalava
  • Sakha (Yakut)
  • Saqqaq
  • Sarmatian
  • Sasanian / Zoroastrian
  • Seljuk Turkic
  • Shan
  • Shui
  • Sicel / Sican
  • Silla + Goryeo + Joseon Korean
  • Sinhala Buddhist
  • Sintashta
  • Sogdian
  • Sotho
  • Sumerian
  • Svear / Götar
  • Tahitian (ancestral migration)
  • Tamil Hindu
  • Tamil-Hindu (post-1735)
  • Tauric
  • Taíno
  • Taíno (Puerto Rican)
  • Te Arawa
  • Teotihuacano
  • Thai (Siamese)
  • Thracian
  • Tibetan Buddhist
  • Tigrayan
  • Tiwanaku
  • Toltec
  • Toraja
  • Trypillian
  • Tunpu Han
  • Ugaritic
  • Urartian
  • Uzbek / Tajik
  • Vedic Indo-Aryan
  • Xhosa
  • Yakut (southern Sakha fringe)
  • Yamato Japanese
  • Yayoi-derived Yamato
  • Yi
  • Yupik (Siberian)
  • Zhuang
  • Zulu

shaman/oracle (149)

  • Abenaki
  • Adnyamathanha
  • Afar
  • Ahtna
  • Ainu
  • Ainu (Honshu fragments)
  • Ainu (Kuril)
  • Ainu (Sakhalin)
  • Aleut (Unangax̂)
  • Altai (Telengit, Tubalar)
  • Anishinaabe (Ojibwe)
  • Antandroy
  • Arosi (Makira)
  • Atacameño (Lickan-Antay)
  • Aymara
  • BaTwa
  • Bakonjo
  • Bakweri
  • Bannock
  • Bara
  • Bedouin
  • Bedouin (Sinai)
  • Berom
  • Blackfeet (Niitsitapi)
  • Bribrí + Cabécar
  • Bunuba
  • Bunun
  • Buryat
  • Buryat (western)
  • Carib + Arawak
  • Chaga
  • Cherokee
  • Chewa
  • Chilote
  • Chinookan
  • Chukchi
  • Chuukese
  • Cochimí
  • Corsican
  • Cree
  • Crow (Apsáalooke)
  • Duna
  • Eastern Shoshone
  • Enga
  • Even
  • Even (Kamchatka)
  • Even (Stanovoy)
  • Evenki
  • Evenki (Baikal)
  • Gond
  • Goshute
  • Gurung
  • Hopi
  • Huli
  • Hutu + Tutsi
  • Iban / Sea Dayak
  • Itelmen
  • Jeju shamanic
  • Kadazan-Dusun
  • Kalaallit (Western Greenlandic Inuit)
  • Karelian rune-singers
  • Kawésqar (Alacaluf)
  • Khanty
  • Khoekhoe
  • Klamath
  • Korean shamanic (mudang)
  • Koryak
  • Lao + Isan Tai
  • Lau (Malaita)
  • Lushootseed (Coast Salish)
  • Maasai
  • Maasai (southern)
  • Mahafaly
  • Mahri
  • Maidu
  • Mansi
  • Mapuche (Huilliche)
  • Mapuche (Picunche + Pewenche)
  • Mi'kmaq
  • Minahasa
  • Miwok
  • Mosuo
  • Mwaghavul
  • Nanai
  • Navajo (Diné)
  • Naxi
  • Nganasan
  • Ngarinyin
  • Ngäbe + Buglé (Guaymí)
  • Ngāti Whātua
  • Nivkh (Gilyak)
  • Nlaka'pamux
  • Northern Paiute
  • Oromo
  • Padmasambhava lineage
  • Paiwan
  • Pamona
  • Patamona
  • Pemón
  • Penobscot
  • Pericú
  • Rukai
  • Saho
  • San (|Xam, southern)
  • Secwépemc (Shuswap)
  • Selk'nam (Ona)
  • Seri (Comcáac)
  • Shawnee
  • Shuar / Achuar
  • Soqotri
  • Steppe shamanic continuous
  • Stó:lō
  • Syilx
  • Sámi (Kola)
  • Sámi (Northern + Eastern)
  • Sámi (eastern)
  • Sámi (southern)
  • Tamang
  • Tebu (Toubou)
  • Tehuelche (Aonikenk)
  • Tibetan Bön
  • Tlingit (interior bands)
  • Toda
  • Tuareg
  • Tunumiit (East Greenlandic Inuit)
  • Tuvan
  • Twa
  • Tūhoe (Te Urewera fringe)
  • Udege
  • Uilta (Orok)
  • Ute
  • Warao
  • Washoe
  • Wayuu
  • Western Shoshone
  • Wiradjuri
  • Worrorra
  • Wotjobaluk
  • Wunambal
  • Yaghan (Yámana)
  • Yakama
  • Yao
  • Yao (Mozambican-Malawian)
  • Yoruba (southern reach)
  • Yukaghir
  • iTaukei (Indigenous Fijian)
  • ni-Vanuatu
  • palawa kani / Lutruwita
  • |Xam + San Bushmen

witness (46)

  • Aeta
  • Albanian / Illyrian
  • Auvergnat / Occitan
  • Bashkir
  • Basque (Vasconic)
  • Buyi
  • Cantabrian (modern)
  • Catalan
  • Chukchi (western)
  • Ciboney / Guanahatabey
  • Cossack
  • Crimean Tatar
  • Cypriot
  • Dolgan
  • Finnish (Suomi)
  • Hungarian
  • Ket
  • Kyrgyz
  • Miao
  • Modern Yucatec Maya
  • Naxi (eastern margin)
  • Norse
  • Norwegian (coastal)
  • Pashtun
  • Penan
  • Pictish
  • Polish (Silesian)
  • Pomak
  • Pomor
  • Pomor (Russian)
  • Pre-Indo-European Vasconic
  • Quechua (Bolivian)
  • Quechua (modern)
  • Sardinian (modern)
  • Storsjö folk
  • Sukuma
  • Sundanese
  • Svan
  • Tajik
  • Tujia
  • Tujia (analogue, distant)
  • Vazimba (legendary substrate)
  • Vedda
  • Visayan
  • West Slavic
  • Yukaghir (western)

custodian (13)

  • Alsatian Huguenot
  • Carolingian-era monastic
  • Christian Icelandic
  • Cistercian monastic
  • Coptic Christian
  • DeLong custodial lineage
  • Italian Catholic
  • MSS (Geophysics Sub-Directorate)
  • Maroon (Cockpit Country)
  • Moravian Catholic
  • Russian Orthodox monastic
  • Shintō shrine network
  • Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd

early-hominin (11)

  • Aurignacian (Chauvet)
  • Aurignacian / Solutrean
  • Denisovan
  • Early Homo
  • Early Homo (Olorgesailie)
  • Late Pleistocene (Niah)
  • Magdalenian
  • Olduvai hominin record
  • Round Heads + Bovidian
  • Sterkfontein hominins
  • Upper Paleolithic (Kapova Cave)

absent (5)

  • (no indigenous population)
  • (uninhabited prior to 1432)
  • (uninhabited prior to 1535 CE)
  • (uninhabited prior to 16th c.)
  • (uninhabited prior to 17th c.)