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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. "

theguardian.com/science/2017/o

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