Artisans, not just commoners, provide the juice for free market societies. But artisans require resources. A lot can be told about a society on the basis of i

Artisans, not just commoners, provide the juice for free market societies. But artisans require resources. A lot can be told about a society on the basis of its resource management; slavery is an extreme response to a lack of resources, or it could also be based on abundance/cultural desire for decadence, based on affluence->scarcity factors - which can indeed be read from the soil and the shards. By looking at the shards and remnants of the dominant industries, we can see that humans self organise as a cultural unit according to what they have available at hand to play with. This is a fundamental key note of the way archeology contributes to our extant society.