Archaeologists discover historical link between inequality and sustainability

Inequality isn't an inevitable aspect of society, 10,000 years of data reveals

A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.

Inequality isn’t inevitable, according to ‘unprecedented’ archeology study

A team at Chicago’s Field Museum has published a first-of-its-kind study analyzing 10,000 years’ worth of wealth disparity across six continents. The results, published on April 14 in the journal PNAS, contradict many longstanding assumptions about inequality’s inevitability and how societies organize over time. America’s wealth disparity is arguably wider than it has ever been in modern history. But such economic injustice—even when not as star…

He must have been the philosopher and one of the parents of the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), one of the first to relate, in his Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men, the appearance of differences of wealth (moral or material) with the advance of complex societies. Later, in the early works that documented the Neolithic Revolution, social scientists established a direct connection between the abando…

Archaeologists measure and compare size of 50,000 ancient houses to learn about history of inequality

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the world, covering the last 10,000 years. They found that while inequality is widespread throughout human history, it's not inevitable, nor is it expressed to the same degree at every place and time.

Huge study, conducted at more than 1,000 archaeological sites around the world: Social disparities did not start immediately with the beginning of the age of agriculture • Population growth, military conflicts and land scarcity are among the reasons why

Archaeologists Examined Ancient Houses To Learn About History Of Inequality - Ancient Pages

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have conducted a comprehensive study to understand the history of inequality by analyzing house size distributions from over 1,000 sites globally, spanning the past 10,000 years. Their findings reveal that although inequality has been a common feature throughout human history, it is neither unavoidable nor uniformly expressed across different […]