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RSS FeedsSocial inequality in Bronze Age households
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

 
 

10 october 2019 20:46:02

 
Social inequality in Bronze Age households
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)
 


Social inequality already existed in southern Germany 4000 years ago, even within one household, a new study published in the journal Science finds. Archaeological and archaeogenetic analyses of Bronze Age cemeteries in the Lech Valley, near Augsburg, show that families of biologically related persons with higher status lived together with unrelated women who came from afar and also had a high status, according to their grave goods. In addition, a larger number of local but clearly less well-off individuals were found in the same cemeteries, which were small grave sites associated with single homesteads. The researchers conclude that social inequality was already part of households structures in that time and region. Whether the less well-off individuals were servants or slaves can only be speculated upon.


 
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