The evidence of the Harappan and Mesopotamian weights found overseas is discussed in the context of a theory of pre-Market economies, acknowledging the co-existence of commerce, gift exchange and elite-organized procurement expeditions. The political factor was pervasive, and weighing was not solely a means of measuring commodity price. Systems recently in use in India are relevant to the fact that the weights abroad were small and few. Also, the occurrence of foreign weights in a few large Mohenjo-daro houses is significant.La présence de poids harappéens et mésopotamiens trouvés hors de leur région d'origine est discutée ici dans un contexte théorique d'économies de pré-marché ; il est mis en évidence la coexistence de liens commerciaux, ...
Gift exchange has an important role in the embedded economies of the ancient Near East since the III...
In the Bronze Age (c. 2300–800 BC), European communities gave up their economic independence and bec...
Abstract: Previous research on the Viking Age trade centre of Birka has suggested the parallel use o...
International audienceThe archives of the Assyrian merchants, found at Kaneš in Central Anatolia, hi...
Cultural contacts and exchange are constituents of human behavior – ancient and modern. Within archa...
The focus of archaeologists on reconstructing exchange and communication networks in the past result...
This second volume by the same author, on the subject of weight and value in pre-coinage societies1,...
The growing body of literature concerning cultural transformations associated with longdistance trad...
International audienceAny consideration of interregional interactions in the Bronze Age-whether in t...
The assemblages of pan-balance weights recovered from the excavations of Cape Gelidonya and Uluburun...
The main issue in recent years of the near eastern metrological studies is the research on the inter...
<p>In the early 20th century, the attention of Assyriologists and archaeologists was directed to a n...
The kingdom of Ugarit, located on the Syrian border was included into the Hittite sphere of influenc...
We analyze a large data set of commercial records produced by Assyrian merchants in the nineteenth c...
Gift exchange has an important role in the embedded economies of the ancient Near East since the III...
In the Bronze Age (c. 2300–800 BC), European communities gave up their economic independence and bec...
Abstract: Previous research on the Viking Age trade centre of Birka has suggested the parallel use o...
International audienceThe archives of the Assyrian merchants, found at Kaneš in Central Anatolia, hi...
Cultural contacts and exchange are constituents of human behavior – ancient and modern. Within archa...
The focus of archaeologists on reconstructing exchange and communication networks in the past result...
This second volume by the same author, on the subject of weight and value in pre-coinage societies1,...
The growing body of literature concerning cultural transformations associated with longdistance trad...
International audienceAny consideration of interregional interactions in the Bronze Age-whether in t...
The assemblages of pan-balance weights recovered from the excavations of Cape Gelidonya and Uluburun...
The main issue in recent years of the near eastern metrological studies is the research on the inter...
<p>In the early 20th century, the attention of Assyriologists and archaeologists was directed to a n...
The kingdom of Ugarit, located on the Syrian border was included into the Hittite sphere of influenc...
We analyze a large data set of commercial records produced by Assyrian merchants in the nineteenth c...
Gift exchange has an important role in the embedded economies of the ancient Near East since the III...
In the Bronze Age (c. 2300–800 BC), European communities gave up their economic independence and bec...
Abstract: Previous research on the Viking Age trade centre of Birka has suggested the parallel use o...