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.
Author(s): Elon D. Heymans, Marleen K. Termeer
Series: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology
Publisher: Propylaeum
Language: English
City: Cologne - Bonn
Tags: Economy, Archaeology, Hacksilver, Money, Ancient World
Martin Bentz, Michael Heinzelmann: Preface
Elon D. Heymans, Marleen K. Termeer: Rethinking Early Money and the State, 1-12
Nicholas Borek: More than Just Coins: A Metrological Approach to Studying Coin Hoards from the Western Mediterranean c.550−480 BC, 13-24
David Wigg-Wolf: The Adoption of Coinage by Non-State Societies. Two Case Studies from Iron-Age Northern Europe, 25-38
Andreas M. Murgan: Between Lumps and Coins. Italy in the First Millennium BC, 39-52
Merav Haklai: How Money Defined the Romans, 53-61
Nicola Terrenato: Discussion, 63-69
