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Modelling Modes of Production: European 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC Economies

In: Ancient Economies in Comparative Perspective

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  • Kristian Kristiansen

    (University of Gothenburg)

  • Timothy Earle

    (Northwestern University)

Abstract

We plan to synthesize an understanding of the broad regional economies of Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe. This synthesis will consider variation in the economies along three dimensions: variation in the subsistence economies reflecting local conditions of resource availability, technologies, and population densities; variation in exchange reflecting regional comparative advantage in commodity production and trade; and variation in political economies reflecting specific bottlenecks in production and distribution allowing for mobilization and circulation of surpluses in wealth and staples. The goal will be to consider how an emerging world economy, especially involving metals, textiles, weapons, slaves, and other highly valued objects created emerging commodity exchange, market forces, power differentials, and population movements. This will consider structures of craft production, means of transport, and political and symbolic uses of objects. We expect to see the evolution of an integrated economy as more products move distances and become integrated into market-like exchanges. Our focus will be on areas that we know best: Scandinavia, Germany, Hungary, and Italy, but we hope to position these regions within a broader understanding of macro-economic transformations.

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  • Kristian Kristiansen & Timothy Earle, 2022. "Modelling Modes of Production: European 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC Economies," Frontiers in Economic History, in: Marcella Frangipane & Monika Poettinger & Bertram Schefold (ed.), Ancient Economies in Comparative Perspective, pages 131-163, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:frochp:978-3-031-08763-9_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08763-9_8
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