Challenge to the view that Neolithic societies were egalitarian

Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 08:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Seven megalithic graves suggest that certain individuals were excluded from burial on the basis of age and sex. The research demographic evidence of selective burial in megalithic graves of northern Spain challenges the widely-held view that societies were egalitarian during the late Neolithic and Chalcolithic ages.

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