Ancient Economies of the Northern Aegean. Fifth to First Centuries BC
Thorstein Veblen’s‘anthropological’approach tofin de sièclematerial culture provides a useful complement to recent research by a ...
cattle, if the tribe is a pastoral one, they are the usual form of investment for a profit.’^43 The style of generalization may ...
tendency of the majority in any social group to follow trendsetters is an idea that we tend to take for granted. In classical an ...
anthropologists have paid as much attention as Veblen did both to the complexities of conspicuous consumption and to the recipro ...
but can then come to be considered a standard element of furnishing, is illustrated in theAnabasis, where Xenophon mentions Pers ...
lower estuary of the Hebros, in 254bc(Polyaen. 4.16), then it would appear that contemporary and later literary tradition could ...
attendants, as well as individuals serving.^56 Most of thefigures on the frieze are clad in knee-length tunics and cloaks that r ...
death, the afterlife, and commemoration. There are both subtle and more obvious distinctions between the Thracian, Getic, and Ma ...
localities in which they appeared, these were thefirst types of ceramics made on the fast potter’s wheel known in these areas (t ...
similarities, means that the production of grey wares also needs to be viewed in connection with other types of ceramic outputs. ...
from different origins; as a result, the detailed intra-regional pattern of technological dissemination remains opaque. Neverthe ...
producing batch samples in controlledfiring conditions. The fact that some techniques and forms resemble native Early Iron Age p ...
middle of the eighth and the early decades of the seventh centurybc,as well as other ceramics originating from the Thermaic Gulf ...
seem to have been multiple forms, which circulated widely in the north Aegean as far east as Troy, and which have been found inl ...
In 184bcPhilip V had attacked Amadokos, the then king of Thrace, and had defeated and taken him prisoner. Polybius implies that ...
Black Sea can be seen simultaneously. What this legend represents is a different kind of understanding of geography and topograp ...
crown in the second half of the fourth century and for the next two hundred years.^85 Stone and timber can be identified and eva ...
The mechanics of exploitation only provide afirst step in understand- ing what the miners and those who supervised mining proces ...
Iron Gold and silver represent only two aspects of the strategic armoury of available minerals. Iron, not silver or gold, was th ...
of radical change over the entire period investigated (sixth centurybcto second centuryad). Since particular technologies are li ...
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