Journal article
The farming-inequality nexus: new insights from ancient Western Eurasia
- Abstract:
- This article advances the hypothesis that the transformation of farming from a labour-limited form to a land-limited form facilitated the emergence of substantial and sustained wealth inequalities in many ancient agricultural societies. Using bioarchaeological and other relevant evidence for the nature of ancient agrosystems, the authors characterise 90 Western Eurasian site-phases as labour- vs land-limited. Their estimates of wealth inequality (the Gini coefficient), which incorporate data on house and household storage size and individual grave goods—adjusted for comparability using new methods—indicate that land-limited farming systems were significantly more unequal than labour-limited ones.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 419.7KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.15184/aqy.2019.105
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/00k4n6c32
- Grant:
- 312785
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Antiquity More from this journal
- Volume:
- 93
- Issue:
- 371
- Pages:
- 1129-1143
- Publication date:
- 2019-09-18
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-02-26
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1745-1744
- ISSN:
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0003-598X
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:976483
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pubs:976483
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976483
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2019-02-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Antiquity Publications Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2019.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at https://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.105
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