The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire

Kent Flannery · 2012

· non-fiction history anthropology

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A sweeping archaeological account of how egalitarian hunter-gatherer bands gave way to hierarchical societies. Flannery and Marcus draw on a lifetime of fieldwork to show inequality is a human invention.