“High degrees of inequality are not inevitable in large societies,” said Feinman. “There are factors that may make it easier to happen or increase to high degrees, but these factors can be leveled off ...

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

the researchers used the variable distributions of house sizes at more than 1000 settlements to calculate a Gini coefficient for each site conducted statistical analyses in which they examined the ...

the researchers used the variable distributions of house sizes at more than 1,000 settlements to calculate a Gini coefficient for each site and conducted statistical analyses in which they ...

The Gini coefficient monitors the distribution of ... The commission also proposed that all wealth would have to be included when calculating the levy. This is sensible from both an economic ...

Regarding more well-known complex societies from history, “we can say that Rome was very unequal: Pompeii has a Gini coefficient of 0.61, and Roman Britain is also around 0.6, depending on how you ...

This Special Feature (SF) on Economic Inequality represents a collective effort to accelerate archaeological assessment of economic inequality. The associated papers use the rich archaeological record ...