The problem with these "house size studies" is that they ignore the nomadic people who lived in the surrounding areas and were (by definition), not housed.
How many nomadics were there, and how much wealth did they have?
This question would probably impact the conclusion that there was less wealth inequality back then.
Reminded me of the youtube vid, "Don't Talk to the Police" [1]. One of the speaker's points is that there are so many laws that people might not know which law they broke.
"Mr Butler has a rare skin condition, which means he sheds flakes of skin, leaving behind much larger traces of DNA than the average person. He worked as a taxi driver, and so it was possible for his DNA to be transferred from his taxi via money or another person, onto the murder victim."
Almost certainly not. I used to work with someone who had to be practically strong-armed into working down his vacation days because he didn't like traveling and, aside from a couple of local-ish hobbies, got bored sitting around home.
I probably got a bit over my travel comfort limit for a while hitting about 160 days/year at peak (including vacation) but I certainly wouldn't criticize anyone for whom that's not their thing.
No. Plenty of people don't have any interest in it.
It just seems like everyone likes it because it's because the new status symbol now that material consumption is looked down on. It's a way to demonstrate your worldliness and check the boxes of the zeitgeist.
But of course plenty of people just like it because it's fun too.
It also strikes me as extraordinarily unlikely that any formal verification effort will use the existing specification, and not build their own (using their own formal language) as they go.
>IRON METEORITE WIDMANSTATTEN PATTERN
PRODUCED IN THE LABORATORY
Joseph I. Goldstein, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.
Arthur S. Doan, Jr., Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt
Uplifted mantle rocks will absolutely cool that slowly. What makes the iron crystals special is that the Earth's mantle and crust is swimming in oxygen so you don't see crystalline metals like that at all.
The formation of Ni-poor kamacite proceeds by diffusion of Ni in the solid alloy at temperatures between 450 and 700 °C, and can only take place during very slow cooling, about 100 to 10,000 °C/Myr, with total cooling times of 10 Myr or less.[13] This explains why this structure cannot be reproduced in the laboratory.
The wide range of cooling rates for IVA irons and their inverse correlation with bulk Ni concentration show that they crystallized and cooled not in a mantled core but in a large metallic body of radius 150±50 km with scarcely any silicate insulation. This body may have formed in a grazing protoplanetary impact.
Uhm,
There is a growing consensus that most iron meteorites come from bodies that accreted early – even before the parent bodies of the chondrites – and that 26Al, which has a half-life of 0.7 Myr, is the major heat source that melted them.
What? If I understand correctly, it was a large 150km metal blob full of radioactive alumin(iu)m that controlled the crystallization process over millions of years. Now that’s hardcore metal.
How many nomadics were there, and how much wealth did they have?
This question would probably impact the conclusion that there was less wealth inequality back then.