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 ...

Inequality, it turns out, is not a natural outcome of agriculture or societal progress but it is a consequence of deliberate choices by those in power.

A comprehensive analysis of thousands of homes from the last 10,000 years reveals the distribution of wealth in ancient times ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention ...

Ancient DNA analysis of nine skeletons from ... be called an "age set," according to the study. In general, in egalitarian societies, leadership is earned instead of inherited, but "age sets ...