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Climate and prehistoric migration

Huybers, Peter; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A.; … - 2026

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Climate and prehistoric migration

Huybers, Peter; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A.; … - 2026

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Kuznets at -7000 : is there a really long-term relationship between growth and inequality?

Kohler, Timothy A.; Green, Adam S.; Ortman, Scott G. - 2025

We use archaeological data on house sizes to generate estimates for economic inequality and economic growth from near the beginning of the Holocene to about the first millennium AD. At worldwide scales these variables are positively related, but patterns are more divergent at regional levels....

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Kuznets at -7000: Is there a really long-term relationship between growth and inequality?

Kohler, Timothy A.; Green, Adam S.; Ortman, Scott G. - 2025

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Roots of inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2025

Why does inequality vary across societies? Why are some societies more unequal than others? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where income differentials reflect variations in productive traits, a significant share of cross-societal differences in inequality may reflect enduring...

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Roots of inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2023

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Roots of inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2023

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Roots of inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2023 - This version: August 2023

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Roots of Inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc; Crisóstomo Wainstock, Daniel - 2023

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Roots of Inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc; Crisóstomo Wainstock, Daniel - 2023

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From Neolithic Revolution to industrialization

Chu, Angus C.; Xu, Rongxin - 2024

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The Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East

Allen, Robert C. - 2024

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The Impact of the Prehistoric Out of Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity

Crisóstomo Wainstock, Daniel; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2023

Evidence suggests that the Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral traditions...

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The Impact of the Prehistoric Out-of-Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity

Crisóstomo Wainstock, Daniel; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2023

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The impact of the prehistoric Out of Africa migration on cultural diversity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc; Wainstock, Daniel Crisóstomo - 2023

Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral...

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The impact of the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration on cultural diversity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc; Wainstock, Daniel Crisóstomo - 2023 - Original version: April 2023, this version: May 2023

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The Impact of the Prehistoric Out of Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2023

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The impact of the prehistoric out-of-africa migration on cultural diversity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc; Wainstock, Daniel - 2023

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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...

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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

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The shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

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The Shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on Life Expectancy : A Double-Edged Sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

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The Shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on Life Expectancy : A Double-Edged Sword

Franck, Raphaël; Moav, Omer; Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2022

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The Shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on Life Expectancy : A Double-Edged Sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

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The Shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on Life Expectancy : A Double-Edged Sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

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Can Marshall plus Malthus explain the evolution of ancient societies? : a review of economic prehistory by Dow and Reed

Bowles, Samuel; Bogaard, Amy - 2024

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Paleoeconomics : Climate Change and Economic Development in Prehistory

Olsson, Ola - 2024

1. Introduction -- 2. African Origins -- 3. Human Capital Evolution in a Cooling Climate -- 4. Hunting and Gathering Homo Sapiens -- 5. The Out-of-Africa Dispersal -- 6. Glacial Adaptations -- 7. Economic Organization on the Eve of Agriculture -- 8. Domestication of Plants, Animals and Humans --...

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The ant and the grasshopper : seasonality and the invention of agriculture

Matranga, Andrea - 2024

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Die ursprüngliche Wohlstandsgesellschaft

Sahlins, Marshall - 2024 - Erste Auflage

Mit diesem kurzen Text, der in den 1970er-Jahren als erstes Kapitel eines ganzen Bandes zu den Stone Age Economics erschien und erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegt, bricht Marshall Sahlins mit dem vorherrschenden ökonomischen Paradigma, dass mehr Arbeit auch mehr Wohlstand bringt. Denn...

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The dawn of civilization : metal trade and the rise of hierarchy

Flückiger, Matthias; Larch, Mario; Ludwig, Markus; … - 2024

In the latter half of the fourth millennium BC, our ancestors witnessed a remarkable transformation, progressing from simple agrarian villages to complex urban civilizations. In regions as far apart as the Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, and the Indus Valley, the first states appeared...

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Economic analyses of prehistoric Greece : from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age

Jones, Donald W. - 2023

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Boom and bust in Bronze Age Britain : the Great Orme copper mine and European trade

Williams, R. Alan - 2023

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Learning cooperation from the commons

Berge, Erling - 2019

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To 1800

2022

"When visited by the British trade mission led by Lord George Macartney, who aimed to show off the best of Western trade and technology, the Qianlong emperor of Qing China was known to have famously replied in 1792 that "Our Celestial Empire possesses all things in prolific abundance and lacks...

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Bergbau in Tirol : von der Urgeschichte bis in die Gegenwart : die Bergreviere in Nord- und Osttirol, Südtirol sowie im Trentino

Neuhauser, Georg; Pamer, Tobias; Maier, Andreas; … - 2022

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The network formation origin of tribal societies

Mejia, Javier - 2018

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The Network Formation Origin of Tribal Societies

Mejia, Javier - 2018

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Gifts, goods and money : comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies

2018

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Gifts, goods and money : comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies

2018

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Trade, merchants, and the lost cities of the Bronze Age

Barjamovic, Gojko; Chaney, Thomas; Coşar, Kerem; … - 2019

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Trade, merchants, and the lost cities of the bronze age

Barjamovic, Gojko; Chaney, Thomas; Cosar, Kerem A.; … - 2017

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Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age

Barjamovic, Gojko - 2017

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Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age

Barjamovic, Gojko - 2017

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Periodization in prehistory, transition and the history of economic thought in Latin America : an expanded view

Luc, Melisa J. - 2021

This chapter intends to make an extended periodization of economic discussions that have taken place in Latin America throughout its history. The task is ambitious; we begin, however, with the periodization elaborated by Oreste Popescu, which we then expand and modify. As educators, we still...

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Economic inequality in preindustrial times : Europe and beyond

Alfani, Guido - 2021

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Animals and the prehistoric origins of economic development

Riahi, Ideen A. - 2021

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Ancient taxation : the mechanics of extraction in comparative perpective

2021

"The studies collected in Ancient Taxation explore the extractive systems of twelve ancient states and societies from across the ancient world, ranging from Bronze Age China to Anglo-Saxon Britain. Together, the contributors explore the challenges of taxation in predominantly agro-pastoral...

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Ice age climate, somatic capital, and the timing of the neolithic transition

Grall, Lothar - 2016

This paper proposes somatic capital as a hitherto neglected variable in the discussion of factors impacting the timing of the Neolithic transition. It develops an evolutionary growth theory that builds on the trade-off between the quantity and the quality of offspring. The theory suggests that...

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The economic development and the rise and fall of Únětice populations : a case of ecologically unsustainable economic growth? : initial thoughts

Tisdell, Clement A.; Svizzero, Serge - 2016

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Input shortages and the lack of sustainability of bronze production by the Únětice

Svizzero, Serge; Tisdell, Clement A. - 2016

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A Western reversal since the Neolithic? : the long-run impact of early agriculture

Olsson, Ola; Paik, Christopher - 2020

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A Western Reversal Since the Neolithic? The Long-Run Impact of Early Agriculture

Olsson, Ola; Paik, Christopher - 2014

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Long-run cultural divergence : evidence from the Neolithic Revolution

Olsson, Ola; Paik, Christopher - 2015

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Long-run cultural divergence : evidence from the Neolithic Revolution

Olsson, Ola; Paik, Christopher - 2016

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Long-Run Cultural Divergence : Evidence from the Neolithic Revolution

Olsson, Ola - 2015

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The Neolithic Revolution from a Price-Theoretic Perspective

Guzman, Ricardo Andres; Weisdorf, Jacob Louis - 2015

The adoption of agriculture during the Neolithic period triggered the first demographic explosion in history. When fertility returned to its original level, agriculturalists were more numerous, more poorly nourished, and worked longer hours than their hunter-gatherer ancestors. We develop a...

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Agriculture, diffusion and development : ripple effects of the Neolithic revolution

Putterman, Louis G. - 2008

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Agriculture, Diffusion, and Development : Ripple Effects of the Neolithic Revolution

Putterman, Louis G. - 2014

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Subsistence and society in prehistory : new directions in economic archaeology

Outram, Alan K.; Bogaard, Amy - 2019

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Historia económica del antiguo Perú

Kaulicke, Peter; Ikehara-Tsukayama, Hugo C.; Segura … - 2019 - Primera edición

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The roots of global inequality : the role of biogeography and genetic diversity

Daniele, Vittorio; Di Ruggiero, Antonio - 2019

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Retrospektive Regionalentwicklung : Wertewandel während der Anfänge der Landwirtschaft im Nahen Osten und in den zentralen Anden

Haury, Arnika - 2019

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A western reversal since the neolithic? : the long-run impact of early agriculture

Olsson, Ola; Paik, Christopher - 2013

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A Western reversal since the Neolithic? : the long-run impact of early agriculture

Olsson, Ola; Paik, Christopher - 2013

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The neolithic revolution and contemporary sex ratios

Fredriksson, Per; Gupta, Satyendra Kumar - 2018

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The Neolithic Revolution and Contemporary Sex Ratios

Fredriksson, Per - 2018

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Trade and geography in the spread of Islam

Michalopulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2018

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Market as place and space of economic exchange : perspectives from archaeology and anthropology

2018

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The archaeology of large-scale manipulation of prey : the economic and social dynamics of mass hunting

2018

"Expands the understanding of large-scale hunting methods beyond the customary role of subsistence and survival to include the social and political realms where large-scale hunting adaptations evolved, primarily from the Americas and spanning from the Folsom Period on the Great Plains to the...

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Trade and civilisation : economic networks and cultural ties, from prehistory to the early modern era

2018

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Money, currency and crisis : in search of trust, 2000 BC to AD 2000

2018

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Money, currency and crisis : in search of trust, 2000 BC to AD 2000

2018

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Isolation and Development

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2012

This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...

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The Climatic Origins of the Neolithic Revolution : Theory and Evidence

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Michalopulos, Stelios - 2012

This research examines theoretically and empirically the origins of agriculture. The theory highlights the role of climatic sequences as a fundamental determinant of both technological sophistication and population density in a hunter-gatherer regime. It argues that foragers facing volatile...

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