The origins of money in the Iron Age Mediterranean world
This book shows how money emerged and spread in the eastern Mediterranean, centuries before the invention of coinage. While the invention of coinage in Ancient Lydia around 630 BCE is widely regarded as one of the defining innovations of the ancient world, money itself was never invented. It gained...
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Język: | Anglais |
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Cambridge [etc.] :
Cambridge University Press
2021.
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World, Elon D. Heymans, 2021, New York, Cambridge University Press, 978-1-108-97532-2 |
| Streszczenie: | This book shows how money emerged and spread in the eastern Mediterranean, centuries before the invention of coinage. While the invention of coinage in Ancient Lydia around 630 BCE is widely regarded as one of the defining innovations of the ancient world, money itself was never invented. It gained critical weight in the Iron Age (ca.1200 600 BCE) as a social and economic tool, most dominantly in the form of precious metal bullion. This book is the first study to comprehensively engage with the early history of money in the Iron Age Mediterranean, tracing its development in the Levant and the Aegean. Building on a detailed study of precious metal hoards, Elon D. Heymans deploys a wide range of sources, both textual and material, to rethink money's role and origins in the history of the eastern Mediterranean. Elon D. Heymans is a scholar of the archaeology and history of both the Greek world and the Levant. His main focus lies on the social, political and historical context of early money use. |
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| Opis fizyczny: | 1 vol. (XXI-333 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliografia: | Bibliogr. p. [279]-321. Notes bibliographiques. Index |
| ISBN: | 9781108838580 (relié) |