Weight metrology and its economic and social impact on Bronze Age Europe, West and South Asia

Publications

Monographic books (2)

Merchants, Measures and Money. Understanding Technologies of Early Trade in a Comparative Perspective

Author(s): Lorenz Rahmstorf Gojko Barjamovic Nicola Ialongo (editors)
Published in: Merchants, Measures and Money. Understanding Technologies of Early Trade in a Comparative Perspective, 2021
DOI: 10.23797/9783529035418

Weights and Marketplaces from the Bronze Age to the Early Modern Period. Proceedings of Two Workshops. Funded by the European Research Council (ERC)

Author(s): Rahmstorf, L., Stratford, E. (eds.)
Published in: Weight & Value, Issue 1, 2019
DOI: 10.23797/9783529035401

Conference proceedings (7)

Later Bronze Age gold ornaments in France and Britain: new investigations into the data and their potential weight regulation (rebutted), in MARCIGNY C. et MORDANT C. (eds) Bronze 2019. 20 ans de recherches, Actes du colloque international anniversaire de l’APRAB, Bayeux (19-22 juin 2019)

Author(s): Raphael Hermann, Anna Paule, Lorenz Rahmstorf
Published in: Bronze 2019. 20 ans de recherches, Actes du colloque international anniversaire de l’APRAB, Bayeux (19-22 juin 2019), 2021, Page(s) 221-229

Ökonomische Integration durch Gewichtsnutzung im bronzezeitlichen Anatolien

Author(s): Lorenz Rahmstorf
Published in: Der Anschnitt, Beiheft 39, 2018, Page(s) 195-203

Im Jenseits Handel betreiben. Areal A/I in Tell el-Dabʿa/Avaris – die späthyksoszeitlichen Schichten und ein reich ausgestattetes Grab mit Feingewichten

Author(s): Prell, S., Rahmstorf, L.
Published in: M. Bietak, S. Prell (Hrsg.), The Enigma of the Hyksos Volume I, ASOR Conference Boston 2017 − ICAANE Conference Munich 2018 – Collected Papers, CAENL 9, 2019, Page(s) 165-197

The identification of balance weights in pre-literate Bronze Age Europe: typology, chronology, distribution and metrology

Author(s): Ialongo, N., Rahmstorf, L.
Published in: Weights and marketplaces from the Bronze Age to the early modern period. Proceedings of two workshops funded by the European Research Foundation (ERC). Weight and Value 1., 2019, Page(s) 105-126

Weight metrology in the Harappan civilization

Author(s): Rahmstorf, L.
Published in: E. Myrdal (ed.), South Asian Archaeology and Art 2014. Papers presented at the Twenty-second International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art held at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities/National Museums of World Culture, Stockholm, Sweden, 30th of June to 4th of July 2014, 2020, Page(s) 77-96

Potential Weights at Shahr-i Sokhta

Author(s): Enrico Ascalone
Published in: L. Rahmstorf, E. Stratford (eds.), Weights and Marketplaces from the Bronze Age to the Early Modern Period, Proceedings of Two Workshops Funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Weight and Value 1, 2019, Page(s) 35-50

From ‘value ascription’ to coinage: A sketch of monetary developments in Western Eurasia from the Stone to the Iron Age

Author(s): Lorenz Rahmstorf
Published in: The Archaeology of Money, 2016, Page(s) 19–42

Book chapters (9)

The Intangible Weight of Things: Approximate Nominal Weights in Modern Society

Author(s): Nichola Ialongo, Alesandro Vanzetti
Published in: The Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Researc, 2016, Page(s) 283-292

The use of bronze objects in the third millennium BC – a survey between Atlantic and Indus

Author(s): Lorenz Rahmstorf
Published in: Appropriating innovations. Entangled knowledgement in Eurasia, 5000–1500 BCE, 2017, Page(s) 184-210

Science and Metrology in Elam

Author(s): E. Ascalone, G. P. Basello
Published in: The Elamite World, 2018, Page(s) 697-728

Of middens and markets: the phenomenology of the market place in the Bronze Age and beyond

Author(s): Lorenz Rahmstorf
Published in: Market as place & space of economic exchange. Perspectives from archaeology & anthropology, 2018, Page(s) 20-40

Indeterminacy and approximation in Mediterranean weight systems, in the third and second millennia BC

Author(s): Nichola Ialongo, Agnese Vacca, Alessandro Vanzetti
Published in: Gifts, Goods and Money Comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies, 2018

Nota su tre potenziali pesi da bilancia rinvenuti nel Building 33 di Shahr-i Sokhta

Author(s): Enrico ascalone
Published in: E. Ascalone, S.M.S. Sajjadi (eds.), Scavi e Ricerche a Shahr-i Sokhta, Studies and Publications Institute, University for Humanities Sciences, Research Center and Development, Tehran, 2019, Page(s) 159-164

Pesi dall’Iran orientale. La metrologia a Shahr-i Sokhta e Konar Sandal Sud all’interno di un sistema culturale integrato

Author(s): Enrico Ascalone
Published in: M. Vidale, D. Usai, S. Tuzzato (eds.), Tales of three worlds. Archaeology and beyond: Asia, Italy, Africa. A Tribute to Sandro Salvatori, 2020, Page(s) 3-16

Die Rahmenbedingungen des bronzezeitlichen Handels in Europa und im Alten Orient einschließlich Ägyptens

Author(s): Lorenz Rahmstorf
Published in: 50 Jahre Prähistorische Bronzefunde –Bilanz und Perspektiven. Prähistorische Bronzefunde XX, 14, 2016, Page(s) 291–310

Emerging economic complexity in the Aegean and Western Anatolia during the earlier third millennium BC

Author(s): Lorenz Rahmstorf
Published in: Of Odysseys and Oddities: Scales and modes of interaction between prehistoric Aegean societies and their neighbors, 2016, Page(s) 225–276

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Breaking down the bullion. The compliance of bullion-currencies with official weight-systems in a case-study from the ancient Near East

Author(s): Nicola Ialongo, Agnese Vacca, Luca Peyronel
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, Issue 91, 2018, Page(s) 20-32, ISSN 0305-4403
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2018.01.002

The Earliest Balance Weights in the West: Towards an Independent Metrology for Bronze Age Europe

Author(s): Nicola Ialongo
Published in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2018, Page(s) 1-22, ISSN 0959-7743
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774318000392

Scales, weights and weight-regulated artefacts in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain

Author(s): Lorenz Rahmstorf
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 93/371, 2019, Page(s) 1197-1210, ISSN 0003-598X
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2018.257

Snyd ikke på vægten! – nye fund af stenvægte fra den ægæiske bronzealder

Author(s): Lorenz Rahmstorf
Published in: Nationalmuseets Arbejdsmark (Copenhagen), Issue 2016, 2016, Page(s) 158–169, ISSN 0084-9308

Establishing the Middle Sea: The Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC)

Author(s): Francesco Iacono, Elisabetta Borgna, Maurizio Cattani, Claudio Cavazzuti, Helen Dawson, Yannis Galanakis, Maja Gori, Cristiano Iaia, Nicola Ialongo, Thibault Lachenal, Alberto Lorrio, Rafael Micó, Barry Molloy, Argyro Nafplioti, Kewin Peche-Quilichini, Cristina Rihuete Herrada, Roberto Risch
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Research, 2021, ISSN 1059-0161
DOI: 10.1007/s10814-021-09165-1

A small change revolution. Weight systems and the emergence of the first Pan-European money

Author(s): Nicola Ialongo, Giancarlo Lago
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, Issue 129, 2021, ISSN 0305-4403
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2021.105379

Bronze Age weight systems as a measure of market integration in Western Eurasia

Author(s): Nicola Ialongo, Raphael Hermann, Lorenz Rahmstorf
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021, ISSN 0027-8424
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2105873118

Non-peer reviewed articles (4)

Lost in combat? A scrap metal find from the Bronze Age battlefield site at Tollense

Author(s): Tobias Uhlig, Joachim Krüger, Gundula Lidke, Detlef Jantzen, Sebastian Lorenz, Nicola Ialongo, Thomas Terberger
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 93/371, 2019, Page(s) 1211-1230, ISSN 0003-598X
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2019.137

Weights at Rakhigarhi and in the Ghaggar basin

Author(s): Enrico Ascalone
Published in: Annali dell'Istituto Italiano di Numismatica, Issue 64, 2018, Page(s) 9-32, ISSN 0578-9923

Breaking News! Making and testing Bronze Age balance scales

Author(s): Raphael Hermann, Judith Steinhoff, Philipp Schlotzhauer, Philipp Vana
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 32, 2020, Page(s) 102444, ISSN 2352-409X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102444

Sind Kannelurensteine Gewichte? Rätselhafte Objekte aus der Bronzezeit

Author(s): Lorenz Rahmstorf, Nicola Ialongo
Published in: Archäologie in Niedersachsen, Issue 2020, 2020, Page(s) 53-56, ISSN 1615-7265