ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Negotiating Social Inequalities in Late Prehistoric Cyprus
The consolidation of social inequalities, postulated to have occurred during the Bronze Age in West Asia, is of crucial importance in the rise of complex societies, yet remains poorly understood. This research project will apply an innovative mixed methods approach to datasets from late prehistoric Cyprus (4000-1700 BCE) to better investigate this key development in global history. Recent archaeological research into social inequalities has either used quantitative methods to demonstrate their emergence (Kohler et al. 2018; Basri and Lawrence 2020) or questioned their existence in early complex societies (Graeber and Wengrow 2021), leaving the question of how social inequalities were first…
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