Schöner Leben in Teotihuacan

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“We’re now finding that life on the periphery was pretty good,” said Boston University archeologist David Carballo
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At a time when daily life in the biggest contemporary Mayan cities, or ancient Rome and Egypt, was marked by a tiny elite lording over impoverished or enslaved masses, most of Teotihuacan’s estimated 100,000 inhabitants fared far better.
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another aspect of Teotihuacan’s egalitarian character comes into view: stone, multi-family apartment compounds where over 90% of Teotihuacanos lived.
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On a scale where 1.0 means one household owns everything and zero indicates total equality, Teotihuacan’s so-called Gini score came in at 0.12, which Smith described as a stunningly low level of inequality for a pre-industrial society.
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Teotihuacan’s commoners grew to a height similar to elites, with males buried in apartment compounds less than 1 centimeter (0.4 inch) shorter than those interred near the city’s central Moon Pyramid. By contrast, commoners were over 6 cm shorter than royals in Mycenae, Greece, and 9 cm shorter in dynastic Egypt, the data showed.
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