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Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality (2025)
Journal Article
Bogaard, A., Cruz, P., Fochesato, M., Birch, J., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Chirikure, S., Crema, E. R., Feinman, G. M., Green, A. S., Hamerow, H., Jin, G., Kerig, T., Lawrence, D., McCoy, M. D., Munson, J., Ortman, S. G., Petrie, C. A., & Roscoe, P. (2025). Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400694122

Significance
Land-use systems create “scarcity” and value regimes that shape economic inequality trajectories. Transitions from labor- to land-limited economies occurred in all major world regions and explain a certain amount of variation in wealth... Read More about Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality.

Assessing grand narratives of economic inequality across time (2025)
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Feinman, G. M., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Green, A., Lawrence, D., Munson, J., Ortman, S., Petrie, C., Thompson, A., & Nicholas, L. M. (2025). Assessing grand narratives of economic inequality across time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), Article e2400698121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400698121

Inequality is a central focus of contemporary scholarship. How did it reach its current extent? Is inequality a natural consequence of modernization, scalar growth, and/or Malthusian forces? Or, were increases in degrees of economic inequality less l... Read More about Assessing grand narratives of economic inequality across time.

100 generations of wealth equality after the Neolithic transitions (2025)
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Kerig, T., Crema, E. R., Birch, J., Feinman, G. M., Green, A. S., Gronenborn, D., Lawrence, D., Petrie, C. A., Roscoe, P., Thompson, A. E., & Kohler, T. A. (2025). 100 generations of wealth equality after the Neolithic transitions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400697122

Significance
Social inequality and productivity have never been greater than they are today, and there is likely a connection between the two. Focusing on 2,000 y before and after the transition to the new production mode that defined the Neolithic,... Read More about 100 generations of wealth equality after the Neolithic transitions.

Assessing neighborhoods, wealth differentials, and perceived inequality in preindustrial societies (2025)
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Thompson, A. E., Munson, J., Ortman, S. G., Mejía Ramón, A. G., Feinman, G. M., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Cruz, P., Green, A. S., Lawrence, D., & Roscoe, P. (2025). Assessing neighborhoods, wealth differentials, and perceived inequality in preindustrial societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), Article e2400699121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400699121

Humans often live in neighborhoods, nested socio-spatial clusters within settlements of varying size and population density. In today’s cities, neighborhoods are often characterized as relatively homogenous and may exhibit segregation along various s... Read More about Assessing neighborhoods, wealth differentials, and perceived inequality in preindustrial societies.

Kuznets’ tides: An archaeological perspective on the long-term dynamics of sustainable development (2025)
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Green, A. S., Feinman, G. M., Thompson, A. E., Cruz, P., Chirikure, S., Kerig, T., Lawrence, D., Petrie, C. A., & Ortman, S. G. (2025). Kuznets’ tides: An archaeological perspective on the long-term dynamics of sustainable development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), Article e2400603121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400603121

Understanding the relationship between inequality and economic growth is a critical science problem that hinders sustainable development. In 1955, Simon Kuznets hypothesized that rising economic growth raises inequality, which levels off as that grow... Read More about Kuznets’ tides: An archaeological perspective on the long-term dynamics of sustainable development.

Economic inequality is fueled by population scale, land-limited production, and settlement hierarchies across the archaeological record (2025)
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Kohler, T. A., Bogaard, A., Ortman, S. G., Crema, E. R., Chirikure, S., Cruz, P., Green, A., Kerig, T., McCoy, M. D., Munson, J., Petrie, C., Thompson, A. E., Birch, J., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Feinman, G. M., Fochesato, M., Gronenborn, D., Hamerow, H., Jin, G., Lawrence, D., …Pailes, M. (2025). Economic inequality is fueled by population scale, land-limited production, and settlement hierarchies across the archaeological record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400691122

Housing inequality and settlement persistence are associated across the archaeological record (2025)
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Lawrence, D., Bogaard, A., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Chelazzi, F., Feinman, G. M., Green, A. S., Hamerow, H., Munson, J., Ortman, S. G., & Thompson, A. E. (2025). Housing inequality and settlement persistence are associated across the archaeological record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), Article e2400696122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400696122

Definitions of sustainability commonly stress both systemic continuity and equality over time. However, the degree to which these two sides of sustainability might be related has not been systematically investigated. Recent theoretical and methodolog... Read More about Housing inequality and settlement persistence are associated across the archaeological record.

War both reduced and increased inequality over the past ten thousand years (2025)
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McCoy, M. D., Birch, J., Chirikure, S., Cruz, P., Green, A. S., Gronenborn, D., Lawrence, D., & Roscoe, P. (2025). War both reduced and increased inequality over the past ten thousand years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), Article e2400695121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400695121

Scholars are divided over the long-term effects that war has had on inequality. Some have argued that conflict grows the gap between rich and poor. Others counter that violence levels out wealth differences. The GINI Project Database is a large globa... Read More about War both reduced and increased inequality over the past ten thousand years.

Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations (2025)
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Cortell-Nicolau, A., Carrignon, S., Rodíguez-Palomo, I., Hromada, D., Kahlenberg, R., Mes, A., Priss, D., Yaworsky, P., Zhang, X., Brainerd, L., Lewis, J., Redhouse, D., Simmons, C., Coto-Sarmiento, M., Daems, D., Deb, A., Lawrence, D., O'Brien, M., Riede, F., Rubio-Campillo, X., & Crema, E. (2025). Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations. Journal of Archaeological Science, 177, Article 106179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106179

Compared to what is found in many other scientific disciplines, archaeological data are typically scarce, biased and fragmented. This, coupled with the fact that archaeologists can rarely test their hypotheses using experimental design, makes archaeo... Read More about Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations.