Journal of Biosocial Science

Table of Contents - 1994 - Volume 26, Issue 04  

Research Article

Ultradian behaviour cycles in a village community of Colombian Indians

Alfred Meier-Kolla1 and Barbara Schardla1

a1 Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Germany

Summary

The daily activities observed in a Colombian village community of contemporary hunting and gathering people were analysed with respect to their time structure. Short term cycles of about 2 hours could be detected in both individual and common behavioural patterns. These behaviour cycles of individual group members appear to have been synchronised by social interaction. From temporal variations of individual activities a common ultradian time frame emerged.

(Received February 15 1993)