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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brandherm, Dirk, editor.

Heymans, Elon, editor.

Hofmann, Daniela, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exchange--History.

Exchange.

Commerce, Prehistoric.

Economics, Prehistoric.

Other Title:

Gifts, Goods and Money

Place of Publication:

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Language Note:

Contributions in English; abstracts in English, French, and German.

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.

ISBN:

1-78491-836-9