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Politics of Value: New Approaches to Early Money and the State: Panel 5.11

By Elon D. Heymans , Marleen K. Termeer

Book information

Publisher
Propylaeum
ISBN
9783948465032, 9783948465025
DOI
10.11588/propylaeum.574
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5234332 bytes)
Series
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology
Pages
\81
Topic
History\\Archaeology
Time added
2023-09-25 08:44:30
ancient worldArchaeologyeconomyHacksilverMoney

Description

As one of the most enduring icons of economic life, money has been a common feature and central focus in complex societies from Antiquity to the present. It gained weight as a key feature of Mediterranean economies in the course of the first millennium BCE, mostly in the form of coinage. But money is more than just coin, and its significance is more pervasive than just to the strict sphere of “the economy”. In the ancient Mediterranean, money and its rise to prominence have b een p redominantly a ssociated w ith t he s tate. B ut c an money only emerge under state authority? This volume questions the assumed relation between the spread of early forms of money and the state and draws attention to different ways in which money as an innovation could be anchored and socially embedded.

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