A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal distributions of wealth correlated with longer-term human settlement. However, the team are keen to stress that one factor is not causally dependent on the other, giving hope that humankind’s survival is not linked to ever-increasing inequality.
Archaeologists discover historical link between inequality and sustainability
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