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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |