Identifying the Archaeological Signatures of Inequality: An Analysis of Inequality at Late Formative La Joya and Bezuapan
Major
Anthropology
Anticipated Graduation Year
2019
Access Type
Open Access
Abstract
This research project presents an analysis of data from two Late Formative Period (ca. 400 BC-AD 100) sites in southern Veracruz, Mexico. The study focuses on how wealth inequality is manifested in the archaeological record; An analysis of systematic coring data, and information derived from in-field excavations, provides insight into wealth inequality across households.
These data are interpreted using an economic measure known as the Gini index. This measure has been increasingly applied to archaeological sites, and this thesis seeks to provide another useful and comparable archaeological example of the index’s utility and a discussion of the index’s limitations.
Faculty Mentors & Instructors
Dr. Philip J. Arnold III, Professor of Anthropology
Supported By
Dr. Christopher Pool, University of Kentucky; Dr. Robert Drennan, University of Pittsburgh
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Identifying the Archaeological Signatures of Inequality: An Analysis of Inequality at Late Formative La Joya and Bezuapan
This research project presents an analysis of data from two Late Formative Period (ca. 400 BC-AD 100) sites in southern Veracruz, Mexico. The study focuses on how wealth inequality is manifested in the archaeological record; An analysis of systematic coring data, and information derived from in-field excavations, provides insight into wealth inequality across households.
These data are interpreted using an economic measure known as the Gini index. This measure has been increasingly applied to archaeological sites, and this thesis seeks to provide another useful and comparable archaeological example of the index’s utility and a discussion of the index’s limitations.
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