Wealth inequality began over 10,000 years ago, gradually increasing after the advent of agriculture due to population growth ...

Across the last 10,000 years, inequality has followed no single path. Instead of a straight rise tied to farming, population booms, or cities, the divide between rich and poor has ebbed and flowed ...

House-size data from ancient sites show that economic inequality is historically variable and shaped by human choices, not ...

“High degrees of inequality are not inevitable in large societies,” said Feinman. “There are factors that may make it easier ...

A new study led by Amy Bogaard, Professor of European Archaeology, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, reveals that ...

The top 10% wealthiest share of the global population reportedly holds 50% of total wealth, and that disparity could worsen.

New York, 24 April 2025 – Economic insecurity, staggering levels of inequality, declining social trust and social fragmentation are destabilizing societies worldwide. The World Social Report 2025, ...

Wealth inequality has been linked to human sustainability for over 10,000 years. That’s according to a new study led by Professor Dan Lawrence from our Archaeology department.

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 ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

Wealth began to concentrate—especially ... or medieval Europe have been used as models for how inequality developed. But the global view tells a more diverse story. Human agency—how people ...