Insights into Social Inequality. A Quantitative Study of Neolithic to Early Medieval Societies in Southwest Germany

• Main Author: Grossmann, Ralph (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2021
• Series: ROOTS 1
• Subjects: Prehistoric archaeology; prehistory; protohistory; archaeology; social inequality; Southwest Germany; burial grounds; multivariate analyses; spatial analyses
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Social inequality is a subject of contemporary concerns. Life capabilities and the access to resources vary significantly in rich and poor countries, between elites and others. Furthermore, inequalities based on bio-anthropological and non-bio-anthropological causes are almost universal. Accordingly...