Tag Archive for 'Inequality'

Prehistoric Central European women’s manual labor was tougher than rowing in today’s boat crews.

Study: Central Europe’s First Farmers Lived in Equality 8,000 Years Ago

Nov 29, 2024 by News Staff

The Linear Pottery Culture (Linearbandkeramik, LBK) communities, which were the first to spread farming across large parts of Europe, showed no signs of...

Reconstruction of the Trypillian giant-settlement Maidanetske, Ukraine. Image credit: Kenny Arne Lang Antonsen / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Trypillia Mega-Sites Avoided Wealth Inequalities between Individual Households, Archaeologists Say

Jul 2, 2024 by Sergio Prostak

The Trypillia culture flourished in western/central Ukraine, Moldova and eastern Romania for over two millennia from the end of the Neolithic to the Early...

Tikal, one of the most powerful Classic Maya cities. Image credit: Bruno Girin / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Autocratic Maya Polities Experienced Higher Wealth Inequalities than Other Mesoamerican States

Mar 26, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists have examined the remains of houses in Uxbenká and Ix Kuku’il, two medium size, peripheral Classic Maya (250-900 CE) polities located...