Environmental Drivers of Wealth Inequality among Ancestral Puebloan Farmers in Bears Ears National Monument

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AUTOR(ES) H.T. Kievman , B.F. Codding , Kenneth Blake Vernon , KATHLEEN M. WILSON , Peter M. Yaworsky , Roxanne Lois F. Lamson
ANO Não informado
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO American Antiquity
ISSN 0002-7316
E-ISSN 2325-5064
EDITORA Elsevier (Netherlands)
DOI 10.1017/aaq.2025.8
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18

Resumo

Here, we explore variation in a new record of archaeological house-floor sizes from the southwestern United States relative to spatially explicit time series estimates of local precipitation. Our results show that inequality becomes more severe during periods of high precipitation. This supports the theory suggesting that inequality may emerge where resources are dense, predictable, and clumped within heterogenous and circumscribed environments. Our findings indicate that wealth inequality may emerge among populations with similar subsistence adaptations as a result of local socioenvironmental variation.

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