Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the frameworks of new institutional economics. Both disciplines, however, still have great difficulty talking with each other. There is no reliable method to convert ancient proxy-data into the economic indicators used i...
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Finding a new approach to ancient proxy data.- Part I- Theoretical Frameworks and Methodologies.- Chapter 2: Playing by whose rules?...
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Koenraad Verboven is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published extensively on ancient social and economic history, includi...