Social Stratification
The emergence of social hierarchies (e.g., rulers, priests, commoners) based on wealth, power, and labor specialization.
Core metadata
- ID: social_stratification
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -9000 (millennium)
- Region: Early agricultural villages and chiefdoms
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Bureaucracy (bureaucracy)
- Early Fortifications (early_fortifications)
- Irrigation (irrigation)
- Urbanization (urbanization)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Neolithic (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 68%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture (agriculture) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Agriculture provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
|
| Property Concepts (property_concepts) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Property Concepts provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Chieftainship (chieftainship) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Chieftainship provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
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