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The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy: Imports, Trade, and Institutions 1300-700 BCE

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On this book, Sarah Murray provides a comprehensive remedy of textual and archaeological evidence for the long-distance trade economy of Greece across 600 years throughout the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age. Analyzing the finished objects that sustained this sort of trade, she also situates these artifacts within the broader context of the ancient Mediterranean economy, including evidence for the import and export of commodities in addition to demographic change. Murray argues that our current model of exchange throughout the Late Bronze Age is in need of a thoroughgoing reformulation. She demonstrates that the association of imported objects with elite self-fashioning isn’t supported by the evidence from any period in early Greek history. Moreover, the notional ‘decline’ in trade throughout Greece’s purported Dark Age seems to be the results of severe economic contraction, quite than a severance of get entry to to trade routes.

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