a tribe may be dozens to hundreds of people, larger than a bandthe smallest and least complex political organization, usually found among hunter-gatherer populations; a band is egalitarian, kin-related, has little bureaucracy, and numbers from a dozen to a few dozen people but not as large as a chiefdomA chiefdom is a form of political organization intermediate between a tribe and a state, and is based on kinship. There may be 100's of people and several villages; and a chiefdom is associated with agriculture and domestication of animals; tribes are often associated with agriculturecultivation of soil to grow food plants using technologies such as plowing, irrigation, terracing, fertilizers and harnessing power of domesticated animals and animal domestication, though on a small scale; tribes may have a village or two with little bureaucracy and an informal political organization
