To be fair we don't hear about the lower classes in general. People who wrote the (history) books didn't bother and therefore historians and archeologist have

To be fair we don't hear about the lower classes in general. People who wrote the (history) books didn't bother and therefore historians and archeologist have not a lot to go by. Much of their everyday lives has to be pieced together from scarce evidence. Sociology is only arriving on the scene much later.