“High degrees of inequality are not inevitable in large societies,” said Feinman. “There are factors that may make it easier ...

Wealth inequality began over 10,000 years ago, gradually increasing after the advent of agriculture due to population growth ...

A new study led by Amy Bogaard, Professor of European Archaeology, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, reveals that ...

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.

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge are remnants of ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

Stiglitz, renowned economist said, unlike Adam's Smith view, "The pursuit of self-interest in the age of AI does not mean the ...

New research from the University of Oxford shows land-hungry farming and scarce land drove wealth inequality over the past 10 ...

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 ...