From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient CreteΆγγελος Χανιώτης A collection of sixteen papers focusing on the economic activities of prehistoric, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman Crete. The wide-ranging papers discuss the economy of prehistoric Crete, social development, production and symbolism in the pre-Palatial and Palatial periods, economic activities and social development in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, coinage and minting and relationships with other polities of the Aegean and east Mediterranean. |
Contents
Introductory Reflections on Economies and Scale in Prehistoric | 17 |
Social Development Management of Production and Symbolic | 25 |
Staple Finance Peak Sanctuaries and Economic Complexity in | 53 |
Systems of Weight and Relations of Production in Late Bronze | 87 |
The Nature of the Economic Relations of Crete with Egypt and | 115 |
Life in the Cretan Mountains at the Turn | 145 |
Three Rs of the Cretan Economy | 175 |
Economic Activities on the Cretan | 181 |
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