#Inequality #SustainableSocieties #AncientCities #GINIProject #ArchaeologicalResearch #ResilientCommunities #NetworkEffects #AnthropologyMatters #BigData #PastForTheFuture

Our global dataset shows that settlement persistence is weakly correlated with inequality, not equality, challenging assumptions about what makes societies sustainable.
#Archaeology #Sustainability #Inequality #GINIProject #SettlementPatterns #Resilience #SocialScience #AncientSocieties #DataDriven

#GINIProject #SocialInequality #ArchaeologicalScience #Urbanism #HouseholdWealth #InequalityResearch #MalthusianMyth #ComparativeHistory #HumanAgency #GlobalArchaeology

Inequality was not just a product of modernization or scale, but of how societies chose to organize themselves.

#Inequality #Archaeology #SocialComplexity #GINIProject #EconomicHistory #Governance #AncientSocieties #WealthGap #PastAndPresent #Urbanism #InstitutionalChange

#Farming #EconomicHistory #AncientInnovation #Neolithic #SocialScience #RethinkingHistory #Archaeology #WealthInequality #GINIProject #Sedentism

The surprising takeaway: inequality didn’t rise everywhere in the same way, or for the same reasons. Technological progress alone wasn’t enough, context mattered.
#Sustainability #Inequality #GINIProject #NeolithicRevolution #SocialComplexity #ArchaeologicalResearch #Prehistory #GlobalHistory

His work explores long-distance exchange networks and their broader implications, often in collaboration with experts in sociology, economics, computer science, and the natural sciences.

#Archaeology #Inequality #SocialEvolution #Prehistory #CollaborativeResearch #Neolithic #GINIProject #CfAS

Why did some ancient communities become unequal while others stayed more balanced?

#AncientInequality #GINIProject #ArchaeologicalData #Sedentism #TechnologyAndInequality #IntergenerationalWealth #SocialStructures #PublicArchaeology @jlmunson.bsky.social