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Uneven and Combined: Product Exchange in the Mediterranean (3rd to 2nd Millennium BCE)

In: The Critique of Archaeological Economy

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  • Reinhard Jung

    (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Archaeological Institute)

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This contribution deals with goods exchange in the Mediterranean Bronze Age by applying Marx’s commodity definition in order to better characterize the economic aspects of that goods exchange and to understand how those aspects affected the societies involved. In the process of commoditization, the exchange value of products becomes distinct from their use value, and as this development typically appears first in exchange relations between societies, the examples discussed here refer to products exported from Cyprus and Mycenaean Greece among others. The exchange relationships between different Mediterranean societies involved products exhibiting a commodity character to various degrees, while showing a rough east-west gradient in this respect. Under specific circumstances, these exchange relationships led to a rapid acceleration in the development of socio-economic relationships within societies.

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  • Reinhard Jung, 2021. "Uneven and Combined: Product Exchange in the Mediterranean (3rd to 2nd Millennium BCE)," Frontiers in Economic History, in: Stefanos Gimatzidis & Reinhard Jung (ed.), The Critique of Archaeological Economy, chapter 0, pages 139-162, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:frochp:978-3-030-72539-6_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72539-6_8
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