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THE CREATION OF INEQUALITY

THE CREATION OF INEQUALITY

HOW OUR PREHISTORIC ANCESTORS SET THE STAGE FOR MONARCHY,

SLAVERY, AND EMPIRE

Kent Flannery

Joyce Marcus

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Cambridge, Massachusetts

London, England

2012

Jacket images: Thinkstock and Getty Images

Jacket design: Jill Breitbarth

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Flannery, Kent V.

The creation of inequality : how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy,

slavery, and empire / Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-674-06469-0

1. Prehistoric peoples. 2. Anthropology, Prehistoric. 3. Human evolution. 4. Social

evolution. 5. Equality. I. Marcus, Joyce. II. Title.

GN740.F54 2012

569.9—dc23

2011039902

Man is born free, and yet we see him everywhere in chains.

J.-J. Rousseau,

The Social Contract

(1762)