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How Wealth Inequality Emerged in This Prehistoric Culture
Nautilus · By Jake Currie ·
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- Archaeologists are using methods to measure wealth and status among early European herders, a society with no written records, tax registers or census data.
- Coverage from Science News (phys.org) describes new research on wealth and status in these communities.
- Nautilus reports that the graves of this culture show growing wealth inequality over time.
Why it matters
The study offers a way to quantify social inequality in prehistoric societies that left no written records, which can inform how science reconstructs past social structures.
Who’s affected
- archaeologists
- readers interested in prehistoric social inequality
- #archaeology
- #inequality
- #wealth
- #prehistory
- #europe
- #herders
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Archaeologists shed new light on wealth and status among Europe's early herders