Ancient Economies of the Northern Aegean. Fifth to First Centuries BC
proposes to‘buy’a daughter of Xenophon’s, should he have one (7.2.38). Seuthes implies the custom of bride price, and the discus ...
challenge posed by maintaining a constant supply of would-be slaves. In a recent survey of the topic, Jean Andreau and Raymond D ...
source.^85 A recent reappraisal of lists of slaves in Aegean inscriptions of thefifth and fourth centuriesbcshows varying propor ...
investigated so far, and although most of the published evidence is more or less contemporary with the Persian Wars and their af ...
vulnerable livestock and people. Animals and people were high-value items for exchange and therefore involved a higher risk for ...
is, from outside the territories administered directly by the Odrysian princes who formulated the legislation guaranteeing the r ...
River Nestos, beside which was thepolisof Pistyros (7.109.2). The Thasians had organized their communities on the mainland to pr ...
occupation. It must also accommodate the aspirations of people less directly affected by the logistics of military requisitionin ...
and Maroneia, from their hinterlands, in an attempt tofind pretexts for intervention and footholds to future control of the regi ...
main scene in a manner more appropriate for an aristocratic landowner of the north Aegean region. The lowest register shows a gr ...
evidence-based level.^99 The nature of ancient exchange depended on the evaluation of one commodity for an equivalent in weighed ...
4. Thelongue duréein the north Aegean THE NORTH AEGEANLONGUE DURÉE IN A NUTSHELL This chapter explores the relationship that anc ...
agricultural and pastoral regimes. Palynological analyses show that forest cover in the mountain zone was still very dense. Some ...
significance, was the disruption that these Celtic or Gallic incursions caused to traditional commercial relations between the c ...
building materials, and many kinds of timber. These could not easily be exploited. Not all of them were effectively investigated ...
(Fig. 4.1). The lower estuaries of these river valleys, which are often the areas that have attracted the greatest interest of h ...
(a) (b) (c) Fig. 4.1.Geomorphological changes in the Thermaic Gulf around the location of Neolithic Nea Nikomedia, Classical Pel ...
capture the full range of materials and assets that would have been relevant to the economies of classical antiquity in this reg ...
the region’s past economic potential. Almost everything is relevant in some way. A larger number of small, highly focused studie ...
began much earlier than most scholars had envisaged, in the third millen- niumbc, with riverine deposits gradually accumulating ...
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