9 octobre 2020
Alexis Gorgues, « Differentiating things: the materiality of ancient economies-1. », Trade, Institutions, Economics, ID : 10670/1.mn2cx7
First a short point of vocabulary: in this blog, the term “ancient” must be understood as referring to all coetaneous societies having developed through the 2nd and 1st millennium BCE in Europe, the Mediterranean or the Near East, regardless of their practice of writing. Archaeology of ancient economies focuses on patterns, i.e. on repetitive behaviours, resulting in the replication of significant and meaningful aspects of the material record. As such, archaeological analyses has a predicta...