Wealth inequality dates back more than 10,000 years, long before the emergence of the first civilizations. A recent study ...

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

House-size data from ancient sites show that economic inequality is historically variable and shaped by human choices, not ...

A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality ...

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 ...

The Gini coefficient is a single index measure that can be expressed on a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 represents perfect equality in income distribution and 100 represents perfect inequality.