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This book reconstructs the early history of money in the Mediterranean, adding an important chapter to our understanding of the ancient world. Integrating documentary and material sources from both the Levant and the Aegean, it explores how precious metal money emerged in the Iron Age Mediterranean.

The papers gathered in this volume explore the economic and social roles of exchange systems in past societies from a variety of different perspectives. Based on a broad range of individual case studies, the authors tackle problems surrounding the identification of (pre-monetary) currencies in the archaeological record. These concern the part played by weight measurement systems in their development, the changing role of objects as they shift between different spheres of exchange, e.g. from gifts to commodities, as well as wider issues regarding the role of exchange networks as agents of...