Social sciences

摘要

Flannery and Marcus (anthropological ar chaeology & social evolution, respectively, Univ. of Michigan) examine the rise of inequality in human societies around the world and explore its possible causes in this scholarly yet accessible work. They begin by looking at the basic personal equality thought to be present in nomadic bands of Ice Age hunters and gatherers and then ex plore the development and manifestation of social and political inequality in many human societies, prehistoric and modern, around the world.