social stratification

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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

There, archaeologists found a variety of homes made of beach rock and lime mortar, ranging from cramped quarters to more sprawling homes with courtyards, suggesting a social stratification, Power said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2023

Band organization is often described as “egalitarian”: there is no formalized social stratification into upper and lower classes, no formalized or hereditary leadership, and no formalized monopolies of information and decision making.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond