The Market Street at Apollonia-Arsuf

Roll, Israel; Ayalon, Etan

doi:10.2307/1356967

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“…This type of exchange can have an organized space in which the producers of the goods gather at specific places and dates to engage in exchange (Feinman and Garraty 2010; Garraty 2010; Hirth 1998). The physical expression of this organized space is a marketplace that usually occupies specific areas, either along streets, as in Apollonia-Arsuf in Israel (Roll and Ayalon 1987), and/or in plazas and places near temples, as reported in the first half of the sixteenth century in Tlaxcala (Cortés 1963) and Tlatelolco (Benavente 1914; Cortés 1963; Díaz del Castillo 1966) in central Mexico. In the Maya area, extensive literature on marketplaces exclusively favors their existence in the plazas of numerous archaeological sites dated to the Classic period (see, for example, Anaya Hernández et al 2021; Cap 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021; Cap et al 2017; Chase and Chase 2014, 2020; Dahlin et al 2007; Hutson and Dahlin 2017; Hutson et al 2017; King 2015, 2020, 2021; King and Shaw 2015; Masson and Freidel 2012, 2013; Shaw 2012; Shaw and King 2015).…”

Section: Market Exchange and Marketplacesmentioning

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Chichen Itza and Its Economy at the End of the Classic Period: Tribute, Centralized Redistribution, and Maritime Stations

Cobos

2023

Ancient Mesoam

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Studies of the ancient economy associated with the Classic and Postclassic periods of Maya civilization show that, in order to explain it, the market economy model has been widely used, where economic transactions were carried out in marketplaces. In this type of economy, goods are exchanged based on an agreed value that takes into account supply and demand. However, other types of exchange, such as tribute and centralized redistribution, could have been used in those transactions instead of a market economy. This article analyzes the role that tribute and centralized redistribution may have played during the heyday of Chichen Itza between the tenth and eleventh centuries. This site seems to have used its powerful military supremacy to extract tribute from sites and regions it conquered militarily and politically as they experienced their collapse. In addition, the archaeological evidence suggests that Chichen Itza made political as well as economic alliances in different regions of the Maya Lowlands in order to obtain sumptuous goods. These commodities were used by members of the elite to reinforce the power structure and consolidate social relations among the different individuals who inhabited that community located in northern Yucatan.

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Section: Market Exchange and Marketplacesmentioning

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Chichen Itza and Its Economy at the End of the Classic Period: Tribute, Centralized Redistribution, and Maritime Stations

Cobos

2023

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“…The differences in manufacturing between the Crusader and Muslim pottery allowed us to sort out the two types of pottery. We used [15][16][17][18][19][20][21], for the selection and identification of Crusader and Muslim pottery. Additionally, we gathered information from public exhibitions in Israeli museums for identification of pottery to each period.…”

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Richard the Lionheart and the Ferocious Saladin Face to Face in Arsuf: A Proteomic Study

Zilberstein¹,

Zilberstein²,

Righetti³

2021

Heritage

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On 7 September 1191, a fierce battle took place in Arsuf (Palestine) between the Crusaders (marching south towards Jerusalem) led by King Richard the Lionheart and the Ayyubid army commanded by the sultan Saladin. The confrontation lasted for most of the day and terminated with a victory of the Crusaders, proving Richard’s courage as a soldier and his skill as a commander while denting Saladin’s reputation as an invincible warrior. The site (today known as Apollonia) holds the ruins of a Crusader castle perched on a cliff over the sea. We recovered plenty of pottery shards among which we could distinguish those of the Crusaders from those of the Ayyubid army. Extraction of food remnants confirmed that the Crusaders’ diet consisted mostly of pig and sheep meat (together with cheese), with a minimum of carbohydrates (what today would be termed a “ketogenic” diet), whereas the Muslim army consumed mostly carbohydrates (wheat, Triticum durum, Hordeum vulgare), together with fruits and vegetables, with minimal levels of sheep meat and cheese. As a result, the Crusaders’ diet had a positive effect on their slenderness and “cardio”. This might have been why the Ayyubid army lost ca. 10 times more soldiers in Arsuf. Shrewdness of leaders and soldiers’ equipment and willingness to fight are, of course, the main ingredients of victory, but diet too might not have a secondary role and help to tip the balance.

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The landscapes of Islamic Merv, Turkmenistan: Where to draw the line?

Williams¹

2008

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The Market Street at Apollonia-Arsuf

Cited by 5 publications

References 4 publications

Chichen Itza and Its Economy at the End of the Classic Period: Tribute, Centralized Redistribution, and Maritime Stations

Chichen Itza and Its Economy at the End of the Classic Period: Tribute, Centralized Redistribution, and Maritime Stations

Richard the Lionheart and the Ferocious Saladin Face to Face in Arsuf: A Proteomic Study

The landscapes of Islamic Merv, Turkmenistan: Where to draw the line?

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