Net private wealth has skyrocketed since 1980 - this is one of the main findings of a new @wid.world study overturning the Kaldor’s facts. More findings in thread 🧵 🔗Study wid.world/news-article...

At the First World History Frontiers Forum, hosted by the Chinese Academy of History. It’s a great opportunity to discuss diverse pathways to urbanisation and the long-term dynamics of #sustainability. #archaeology

I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others. doi.org/10.1017/S095...

Great project with an amazing team!

A slightly more accessible route in to our research on Neolithic Ireland and the early breakdown of genetic kin as an organising principle for burial, as early at 3600 BC (from memory) - due to increasing mobility. Thanks for the heads up @pennybickle.bsky.social 👍🏼

Call for participants! @apolitopoulos.bsky.social, @kjkillackey.bsky.social, Stu Eve and I are holding an Archaeology & Worldbuilding playtesting and discussion workshop at @tag2025york.bsky.social! We have limited spaces, please sign up: forms.gle/rbjeDGD68nXR...

A new study based on extensive data and recent excavations uses the example of SE-Europe to challenge widely held theories about the emergence of social hierarchies in prehistory. It has been published now at @aaas.org's #ScienceAdvances. Read more 👇 🏺 #inequality #Neolithic #BronzeAge

Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology (Human and Animal Relations in Prehistory)- University of Cambridge - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD818/a...

Seals and sealings were critical for everyday people from the moment it was invented in the Neolithic. Exploring the way elites hijacked the technology after a couple millennia provides a vital glimpse into the dynamics of #inequality.

To make a fairer economy, we must understand the evolutions of #money. As Desan writes: “money is created by political intervention: it carries value by changing the way people relate to resources and it distributes costs and profits as it does so.” #history #sustainability #inequalty #politics

Did you know some of the most fascinating archaeological discoveries never make the headlines? 🏺 🧪 🎙️ In this episode, Rachel shares overlooked archaeology discoveries. We explore how interpretation, imagination, and new technologies shape the stories we tell about the past. youtu.be/Iidzs6_pprI

Private fortunes took off after the Bronze Age. In the Roman Empire and Later Han China, fortunes reached ~30,000 times subsistence- a gaping chasm between rich and poor. This recent transition in deep history gave us #billionaires. #inequality #archaeology www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...

Just a couple days left to submit an abstract! Come join us to discuss how #archaeology can help us to a better understanding of #growth.

Are you an archaeologist interested in past trajectories of economic growth? An economist interested in how ancient data can inform a sustainable future? Submit a paper to @tag2025york.bsky.social and join the debate! #growth #degrowth #post-growth tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

Look out for this transformative improvement to finding stuff on ADS

Great opportunity for archaeological research on #inequality! Do get in contact with me if you’d like to discuss a project!

Indus seals- likely used to monitor #credit in early #urban communities. Indus credit fostered low #inequality, contrasting with the extractive interest-bearing loans in Mesopotamia. Can we learn from Indus seals to make our own credit systems more equitable? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...!

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Does perceiving #inequality shape our responses to it? I joined @archaeologyamy.bsky.social's paper comparing inequality within and between ancient neighbourhoods. Big differences between what people tolerated in their place-based communities and across broader society. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A devastating loss. Flag Fen Roundhouse destroyed by Peterborough vandals www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/crime/t...

Check this out! Stapley presents historical routeways in the North York Moors, highlighting how much human activity in these updates has changed through time. Human-environment relationships are not fixed; how can we make them more #sustainable.

There's a complex link between #inequality and the ability of a community to persist. This article led by @dl-arch.bsky.social uses #archaeology to reveals how investigating this link can help us better understand #sustainable future. inhttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400696122

🎲LAST CHANCE! Love Daybreak? Curious about environmental games? Don’t miss Playtest Dawn, part of our #PlayForThePlanet series. 🗓️Wed 16 July 📍Sustainability Clinic, @york.ac.uk Try a new version of Daybreak with designer @baddeo.bsky.social himself. 👉Email [email protected] for invite

Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.

What happens when societies fail to prevent the monopolization of resources? In early, they end up with citadels, like Los Millares, characterised by relatively low permanent populations, low economic #growth, and exaggerated hierarchies. #inequality #archaeology www.routledge.com/Cities-and-C...

Just two weeks left to submit to our interdisciplinary session on theorising economic #growth (and #degrowth) in #archaeology! Come join a vital debate about the growing impact of human economies on our environments.

Skyrocketing #inequality isn't historically inevitable, and isn't even particularly common. There are many examples of diverse past societies that avoided inequality, why are we so willing to accept the concentration of power and resources today? #archaeology #ancientsky www.un.org/sustainabled...

🚨 New YESI Fellows fact sheet out now! See what our amazing Fellows have achieved since 2022 — from policy impact to creative outreach. 📄 Read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Rm40... 👀 And watch for the 2025/26 call – opening this September! #YESIFellows #ResearchImpact

Visited Wharram Percy last week with a visiting scholar. Excavated sites like Wharram are archives of long-term social (and economic) change, and hold clues about how societies operate without fossil fuels. Work is needed, though, to learn from these deep-time datasets.

"Climate necropolitics means we are being sacrificed. There is nothing passive or natural about this process." Having woken from another lucid dream where I'm trying to rescue people from climate chaos, this short read over morning coffee from @jksteinberger.bsky.social helps make sense of it all.

just to reinforce, whether the killing is direct or indirect, active or laissez-faire, it's still crime, it's still evil.

Turn this off if you still have an Academia.edu account.

Come and chat power with us @tag2025york.bsky.social in December!

In my chapter, I examine South Asia's Bronze Age using Piketty's "inequality regimes". Indus cities were egalitarian, but their pre-urban predecessors may not have been. Check out Chapter 13 for thoughts on how inequality regimes emerge... and are overturned... www.routledge.com/Understandin...

We also published a second paper on the spread of farming from Anatolia into SE Europe. Our results challenge the assumption that cultural entities frequently correspond to genetically homogeneous populations. Pots don’t equal people! 🏺 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties. Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods. 🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.

Out today! New research on how people create large-scale collectives in the past, and how elites were not a prerequisite to the process. Each chapter provides an authoritative overview of a different part of the world. #archaeology #inequality www.routledge.com/Understandin...

This edited volume represents a serious effort to rethink basic categories of human political development, based on new archaeological data from across the world. Thanks to Justin Jennings for inviting me to write a preface (in which I note a debt to Carole Crumley) www.routledge.com/9781032856926

Are you an archaeologist interested in past trajectories of economic growth? An economist interested in how ancient data can inform a sustainable future? Submit a paper to @tag2025york.bsky.social and join the debate! #growth #degrowth #post-growth tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

Very happy to welcome Dr Alam from the Aligarh Muslim University in India to @york.ac.uk as a Global South Fellow. Looking forward to two weeks of designing research at the intersection of #archaeology and #sustainability.

In the Neolithic, Canadian timber such as spruce and larch reached Orkney as driftwood. It was used to make artefacts and for construction and fuel. Now it reaches Orkney as wildfire smoke. #anthropocene 🧪🏺🌲🔥

Amazing work by Louise!! Want to play an Avebury cosy game? Have at it: louisebedford.com/no-stone-lef...

Our department is looking for a Lecturer in Human Geography. This is a permanent full-time position staring as soon as possible. Please share this great opportunity! All details in this job ad: www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Enjoying the dialogue around one of our @pnas.org papers, but it's important to emphasise that while #inequality is a political choice, there are big patterns. As scale increased, so did the *capacity* for inequality, even if some societies rejected it. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Check out the below opportunity for advanced undergrads and grads interested in #Zooarchaeology! 👇👇👇

Archaeology reveals that productivity doesn't necessarily raise inequality in the deep past! Here we test a new approach to measuring productivity using archaeological data. The results striking, expanding archaeology's methods for assessing past economies. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

When does trade exacerbate inequality? Governance plays a role. Archaeology suggests that when a tiny group seizes the tools for maintaining fairness, inequality outstrips productivity. While not inevitable, this pattern does emerge several times in the deep past. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Curious about how long-distance trade reshaped ancient economies? Our research reveals it could lower #inequality, but only to a point. Learn about how long-term relationships between inequality and productivity resulted in "sustainable development" in the deep past. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...