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Bronze Age weight systems as a measure of market integration in Western Eurasia

Weighing technology was invented around 3000 BCE between Mesopotamia and Egypt and became widely adopted in Western Eurasia within ∼2,000 y. For the first time in history, merchants could rely on an objective frame of reference to quantify economic value. The subsequent emergence of different weight...

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Autores principales: Ialongo, Nicola, Hermann, Raphael, Rahmstorf, Lorenz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8271817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34183401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105873118