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Title Gifts, goods and money : comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies / edited by Dirk Brandherm, Elon Heymans and Daniela Hofmann.

Publication Info. Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 223 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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still image sti rdacontent
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online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Archaeopress archaeology.
Archaeopress archaeology.
Note Previous edition issued in print: 2018.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary The papers gathered in this volume explore the economic and social roles of exchange systems in past societies from a variety of different perspectives. Based on a broad range of individual case studies, the authors tackle problems surrounding the identification of (pre-monetary) currencies in the archaeological record.
Audience Specialized.
Note Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 4, 2018).
Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service.
Contents Introduction: comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies / Dirk Brandherm, Elon Heymans and Daniela Hofmann -- Indeterminacy and approximation in Mediterranean weight systems in the third and second millennia BC / Nicola Ialongo, Agnese Vacca and Alessandro Vanzetti -- Fragmentation patterns revisited ritual and recycling in Bronze Age depositional practice / Dirk Brandherm -- Weight units and the transformation of value: approaching premonetary currency systems in the Nordic Bronze Age / Lene Melheim -- Heads or tails: metal hoards from the Iron Age southern Levant / Elon D. Heymans -- Weighing premonetary currency in the Iberian Iron Age / Thibaud Poigt -- Of warriors, chiefs and gold. Coinage and exchange in the late pre-Roman Iron Age / David Wigg-Wolf -- New wealth from the Old World: glass, jet and mirrors in the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century indigenous Caribbean / Joanna Ostapkowicz -- Gifts of the gods objects of foreign origin in traditional exchange systems in Palau / Constanze Dupont.
Language Contributions in English; abstracts in English, French, and German.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Economics, Prehistoric.
Civilization, Ancient.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Civilization, Classical.
Économie préhistorique.
Civilisation ancienne.
Fouilles (Archéologie)
excavation (process)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Civilization, Ancient
Economics, Prehistoric
Excavations (Archaeology)
Genre/Form History
Added Author Brandherm, Dirk, editor.
Heymans, Elon, editor.
Hofmann, Daniela, editor.
Archaeopress, publisher.
Other Form: Print version: Gifts, goods and money. Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2018] 1784918350 (OCoLC)1028165535
ISBN 9781784918354
1784918350
1784918369
9781784918361 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000072036447

 
    
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