Highly structured societies can invest in large-scale textile production.

Evidence

A society that could organize all this, and devote so much energy and resource to materials for burial, must have been both prosperous and very highly structured. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 410

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 410