How ancient lentils reveal the origins of social inequality
"It’s emblematic of the Ubaid that this large cache of lentils resides within a private house and not in a public building. It represents a valuable crop which was the property of an industrious farming family and did not belong to the wider community, as it would have in the previous more egalitarian periods. "
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/11/lentils-origins-of-social-inequality