The farming-inequality nexus: new insights from ancient Western Eurasia
The farming-inequality nexus: new insights from ancient Western Eurasia
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DOI：
10.15184/aqy.2019.105
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发表时间：
2019-10-01
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1.8
通讯作者：
Bowles, Samuel
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作者：
Bogaard, Amy;Fochesato, Mattia;Bowles, Samuel
本文提出了一个假设，即农业从劳动力有限的形式到土地有限的形式的转变促进了许多古代农业社会中出现的实质性和持续的财富不平等。利用生物考古学和其他有关古代农业系统性质的证据，作者将欧亚西部的90个遗址阶段划分为劳动力与土地限制。他们对财富不平等的估计（基尼系数），其中包括房屋和家庭存储大小和个人坟墓货物的数据-使用新方法进行了可比性调整-表明土地有限的农业系统比劳动力有限的系统更不平等。
This article advances the hypothesis that the transformation of farming from a labour-limited form to a land-limited form facilitated the emergence of substantial and sustained wealth inequalities in many ancient agricultural societies. Using bioarchaeological and other relevant evidence for the nature of ancient agrosystems, the authors characterise 90 Western Eurasian site-phases as labour- vs land-limited. Their estimates of wealth inequality (the Gini coefficient), which incorporate data on house and household storage size and individual grave goods-adjusted for comparability using new methods-indicate that land-limited farming systems were significantly more unequal than labour-limited ones.