The ‘Western Cimmerians’ and the first Greek settlers in the Troad, 2021
Thasos et la mer Noire aux époques classique et hellénistique: 'grandeur et décadence' d'un circu... more Thasos et la mer Noire aux époques classique et hellénistique: 'grandeur et décadence' d'un circuit économique. Thibaut Castelli From the tower of Kronos to the island of Achilles: placing Leuce in the Greek conception of heroic apotheosis ..
In 1989, during the excavations at the site of Galabovo, for the first time import from Anatolia ... more In 1989, during the excavations at the site of Galabovo, for the first time import from Anatolia was found in Eastern Thrace. During the following thirty years, other Middle Bronze Age settlements in Eastern Thrace revealed a trade connection from Anatolia to the Balkans and vice versa. However, regarding this trade connection in a wider view, in fact, a world-system analysis, Galabovo could have been the connection were the northern Amber road from the Baltic met the southern Great Caravan road. During the Late Bronze Age, trade-in metals was an essential aspect of the economy of the Bronze Age world. In the Aegean, raw copper was mostly traded in the form of the so-called ox-hide ingots and several of such items were found in Eastern Thrace, possibly mined and melted in the Strandzha Mountains. There are strong archaeological indications that metal, mined in Eastern Thrace, was transported over land and the Maritza River to the Aegean world over a long period, in the context of the same existing world system.
There is almost no information on river trade with the ancient authors. Virtually our only source... more There is almost no information on river trade with the ancient authors. Virtually our only source for the cost of river trade (or more exact inland waterways) in antiquity, is Diocletian's Price Edict from 301 AD, in which the following statements are made: Transport by sea 1, by inland waterway 4.9, by road 28-56 (DUNCAN-JONES 1974, 366). So it seems that transport in antiquity and probably also in the medieval and early modern times by an inland waterway was 6 till 10 times cheaper then by land.
The ‘Western Cimmerians’ and the first Greek settlers in the Troad, 2021
Thasos et la mer Noire aux époques classique et hellénistique: 'grandeur et décadence' d'un circu... more Thasos et la mer Noire aux époques classique et hellénistique: 'grandeur et décadence' d'un circuit économique. Thibaut Castelli From the tower of Kronos to the island of Achilles: placing Leuce in the Greek conception of heroic apotheosis ..
In 1989, during the excavations at the site of Galabovo, for the first time import from Anatolia ... more In 1989, during the excavations at the site of Galabovo, for the first time import from Anatolia was found in Eastern Thrace. During the following thirty years, other Middle Bronze Age settlements in Eastern Thrace revealed a trade connection from Anatolia to the Balkans and vice versa. However, regarding this trade connection in a wider view, in fact, a world-system analysis, Galabovo could have been the connection were the northern Amber road from the Baltic met the southern Great Caravan road. During the Late Bronze Age, trade-in metals was an essential aspect of the economy of the Bronze Age world. In the Aegean, raw copper was mostly traded in the form of the so-called ox-hide ingots and several of such items were found in Eastern Thrace, possibly mined and melted in the Strandzha Mountains. There are strong archaeological indications that metal, mined in Eastern Thrace, was transported over land and the Maritza River to the Aegean world over a long period, in the context of the same existing world system.
There is almost no information on river trade with the ancient authors. Virtually our only source... more There is almost no information on river trade with the ancient authors. Virtually our only source for the cost of river trade (or more exact inland waterways) in antiquity, is Diocletian's Price Edict from 301 AD, in which the following statements are made: Transport by sea 1, by inland waterway 4.9, by road 28-56 (DUNCAN-JONES 1974, 366). So it seems that transport in antiquity and probably also in the medieval and early modern times by an inland waterway was 6 till 10 times cheaper then by land.
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northern Amber road from the Baltic met the southern Great Caravan road. During the Late Bronze Age, trade-in metals was an essential aspect of the economy of the Bronze Age world. In the Aegean, raw
copper was mostly traded in the form of the so-called ox-hide ingots and several of such items were found in Eastern Thrace, possibly mined and melted in the Strandzha Mountains. There are strong archaeological indications that metal, mined in Eastern Thrace, was transported over land and the Maritza River to the Aegean world over a long period, in the context of the same existing world system.
northern Amber road from the Baltic met the southern Great Caravan road. During the Late Bronze Age, trade-in metals was an essential aspect of the economy of the Bronze Age world. In the Aegean, raw
copper was mostly traded in the form of the so-called ox-hide ingots and several of such items were found in Eastern Thrace, possibly mined and melted in the Strandzha Mountains. There are strong archaeological indications that metal, mined in Eastern Thrace, was transported over land and the Maritza River to the Aegean world over a long period, in the context of the same existing world system.