social stratification
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The religion is "the essence of social stratification", marapu priest Umbu Remi Deta told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
At Amnya, her team also noted a possible sign of social stratification, another development often linked to agriculture: a cluster of houses that sat, undefended, outside the palisade.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023
The caste system is among the world's oldest forms of rigid social stratification.
From Reuters ● Aug. 29, 2023
The groups that followed and lived off them practiced a seminomadic lifestyle requiring relatively few belongings; thus, their culture had far less social stratification than existed in the Pacific Northwest.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
It also took several centuries for Yayoi Japan to exhibit the first signs of social stratification, as reflected especially in cemeteries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
