Archaeologists compared the size of 50,000 ancient houses to learn about history of inequality, they found that it's not inevitable

ScienceDaily
Apr 14, 2025, 4:20 pm289 ptsTop
We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the world, covering the last 10,000 years. They found that while inequality is…

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