Gifts, goods and money : comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies /: comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Dirk Brandherm, Elon Heymans and Daniela Hofmann.
• Editors: Brandherm, Dirk; Heymans, Elon; Hofmann, Daniela
• Contents: Introduction: comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies – by Dirk Brandherm, Elon Heymans and Daniela Hofmann; Indeterminacy and approximation in Mediterranean weight systems in the third and second millennia BC – by Nicola Ialongo, Agnese Vacca and Alessandro Vanzetti; Weight units and the transformation of value: approaching premonetary currency systems in the Nordic Bronze Age – by Lene Melheim; Heads or tails: metal hoards from the Iron Age southern Levant – by Elon D. Heymans; Weighing premonetary currency in the Iberian iron Age – by Thibaud Poigt; Of warriors, chiefs and gold. Coinage and exchange in the late pre-Roman Iron Age – by David Wigg-Wolf; New wealth from the Old World: glass, jet and mirrors in the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century indigenous Caribbean – by Joanna Ostapkowicz; Gifts of the gods — Objects of foreign origin in traditional exchange cycles in Palau – by Constanze Dupont.
• Publisher Details: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 228 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 330.901; Economics, Prehistoric; Civilization, Ancient; Excavations (Archaeology)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784918361
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 4, 2018).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.