New research at an ancient settlement in Spain reveals an egalitarian society that shared labor and local resources.

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 ...

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

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

The discovery of 'sacrificed' teenagers from 4,800 years ago in the royal tombs of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization complicates our understanding of early societal hierarchies.

Once part of ancient Mesopotamia ... can be called an "age set," according to the study. In general, in egalitarian societies, leadership is earned instead of inherited, but "age sets" and ...

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

A new archaeological study at an ancient settlement, Valencina de la Concepción, near Seville, Spain, reveals that an egalitarian and cooperative society thrived there for nearly 1,000 years during ...

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of “grand funerary rituals” and the burial of “spectacular” quantities of ...

This department provides continuous geographic coverage of ancient societies from the Plains of North America through the Southwest and Mesoamerica to the Intermediate Area. The native societies range ...

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 led by Washington State ...