What might the Bronze Age World-System Look Like?

Warburton, David A.

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“…Si bien las fuentes egipcias son mucho más parcas que las procedentes del Próximo Oriente, es posible comprobar no obstante que tales fenómenos distaban mucho de estar ausentes en el país de los faraones. Esto ayudaría a explicar por qué los ritmos de cambio histórico en Egipto siguen tan estrechamente los producidos en su entorno inmediato (Warburton 2011(Warburton y 2013Moreno García 2016).…”

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Circuitos económicos informales

García

2022

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Aunque es habitual considerar la economía faraónica como rígidamente centralizada y controlada por el estado, en realidad los circuitos económicos dominados por la monarquía y las grandes instituciones coexistían con otros, informales. Descubrimientos arqueológicos recientes demuestran el volumen y el alcance de intercambios protagonizados por poblaciones costeras, pastores, pescadores, mercaderes itinerantes, etc., al margen de cualquier intervención del estado. De hecho, parece plausible que en ocasiones la política expansiva de algunos estados del Próximo Oriente (incluido Egipto) perseguía capturar estas lucrativas redes comerciales que escapaban a su control y así gravarlas y extraer un beneficio económico. En otros casos, sabemos de la existencia de producciones artesanales de calidad cuya producción no obedecía a la demanda de la monarquía o de grandes instituciones, sino a una demanda urbana y rural que alimentaba circuitos de producción complejos capaces de integrar, según las necesidades, talleres y unidades domésticas. Por último, también parece que los mercaderes constituyeron un sector importante de la vida productiva y urbana del Egipto faraónico, si bien las fuentes relativas a sus negocios, sobre todo privados, son sorprendentemente escasas.

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García

2022

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“…Some authors have argued for the existence of a Bronze Age ‘World System’, emphasizing the interconnectedness of Europe, Asia and northern Africa (e.g. Frank ; Kristiansen ; Warburton ; Wilkinson et al . ).…”

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Unique Objects, Special Deposits and Elite Networks in Bronze Age Europe

Wells

2016

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary Most material culture of later prehistoric Europe comprises common forms of pottery, personal ornaments, and tools of different kinds. But some objects stand out by virtue of their unique decoration. These special objects were often ornamented with motifs and patterns that were intended to capture and hold the viewer's attention. Many such objects were purposefully deposited, sometimes in graves, sometimes in ‘structured deposits’. In the Early and Middle Bronze Age, ornate cups played special roles, both in expressing the status of elites and in serving as common elements in long‐distance connections between elites in different regions of Europe. An unusual pit at Kelheim in Bavaria, Germany, serves as a case study to explore the connections between uniquely decorated cups, the emergence of elites during the Early and Middle Bronze Age, and the formation and maintenance of long‐distance connections between communities throughout Europe.

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“…Furthermore, the elite practices of display and consumption of exotica stimulated the acquirement of high-status items in the form of specialised manufacture and raw materials (e.g. obsidian, ivory, lapis lazuli, gold, silver) from neighbouring or distant regions and political entities playing as trade partners [15]. Put simply, in South-Western Asia during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages there were several different commercial systems that "consisted of a series of interlocking circuits feeding each other and overlapping at certain nodal points" [10].…”

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Commercial Landscapes of Long-distance Contacts in Western Asia, C. 3200 – 1600 BC: Perspectives from Material Culture

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Palmisano

2018

Journal of Open Archaeology Data

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To our knowledge, the dataset described in this paper represents the largest existing repository of archaeological material culture data for Anatolia, northern Mesopotamia, and northern Levant during the Early and Middle Bronze Age (ca. 3,200-1,600 BC). Here we present four types of objects (lapis lazuli and ivory artefacts, Syrian bottles, and balance pan weights) that can be analysed as tracers of long-distance contacts for assessing what exchange patterns and socioeconomic dynamics (e.g. gifts, trade, marriage alliances, tribute, market profit, reciprocity, etc.) are responsible for the allocation and distribution of these materials in the Near East.

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What might the Bronze Age World-System Look Like?

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Unique Objects, Special Deposits and Elite Networks in Bronze Age Europe

Commercial Landscapes of Long-distance Contacts in Western Asia, C. 3200 – 1600 BC: Perspectives from Material Culture

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