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1 online resource (vi, 223 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Archaeopress archaeology. |
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Archaeopress archaeology.
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Previous edition issued in print: 2018. |
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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. |
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Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 4, 2018). |
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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.
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Civilization, Ancient.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Civilization, Classical.
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Économie préhistorique.
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Civilisation ancienne.
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Fouilles (Archéologie)
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excavation (process)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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Civilization, Ancient
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Economics, Prehistoric
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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History
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| Added Author |
Brandherm, Dirk, editor.
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Heymans, Elon, editor.
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Hofmann, Daniela, editor.
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Archaeopress, publisher.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gifts, goods and money. Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2018] 1784918350 (OCoLC)1028165535 |
| ISBN |
9781784918354 |
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1784918350 |
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1784918369 |
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9781784918361 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000072036447 |
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