The farming-inequality nexus: new insights from ancient Western Eurasia

2019/09/18 by Amy Bogaard, Mattia Fochesato, Samuel Bowles · 161 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Mathematics · #Agriculture #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Computer science #Geography #Historical Economic and Social Studies #History #Inequality #Mathematics #Nexus (standard)

paper · doi:10.15184/aqy.2019.105

published in Antiquity 93(371), 1129-1143 (Cambridge University Press)

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