Archaeological database reveals links between housing and inequality in ancient world

Archaeological database reveals links between housing and inequality in ancient world

If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge are remnants of shelters built 1.7 million years ago by Homo habilis, an extinct species representing one of the earliest branches of humanity's family tree.

Wealth inequality's deep roots in human prehistory

Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges traditional views that disparities in wealth emerged suddenly with large civilizations like Egypt or Mesopotamia.

Some 50,000 archaeological sites have been analyzed to use differences in housing size as a measure of wealth inequality Oxfam notes that there are four billionaires new a week while the poor barely raise their incomes The gap between rich and poor is nothing new. According to a new study comparing the distribution of housing size in more than a thousand places in the world over the past 10,000 years, inequality is widespread throughout the hist…

New study links wealth inequality and human sustainability across...

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Economic inequality: it is one of the major problems in our contemporary society. But it is certainly not a modern problem; new research reveals that people were already dealing with it more than 10,000 years ago. This is what researchers write in the journal PNAS. For the research, they examined the remains of more than […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl .

A study shows that social inequality does not only depend on population growth. Archaeologists have investigated 50,000 houses from the last 10,000 years.