This atlas of pre-colonial societies presents the cultural heritage of the non-Western world through printed maps, electronic data, texts and archival materials. The information is based on thousands of ethnological studies about pre-industrial economic systems and patterns of settlement, ways of political organization as well as dominating blood-relationship and hereditary rules. Ninety-five African, Asian and Melanesian countries, twenty-nine Chinese provinces and twenty-five federal Indian states are described with 51 variables and indices and analyzed by their ethnological backgrounds. Printed Maps: 12 identifications maps, 8 theme maps (16 x 32 inches) covering