MITCHINER, MICHAEL Ancient Trade and Early Coinage. (Volume 1 & 2) Hawkins Publications
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30 x 21.5 cms., 1,420 pages, with almost 6,000 coins catalogued and the great majority illustrated. The author looks at history and trade from a new perspective; hence coinage is also looked at from a new viewpoint. The theme of long distance trade, particularly in metals, permeates the whole of this study. The influence of population movements across the Eurasian steppe and also into more southerly regions is a second theme and the influence of climatic changes on long distance trade and on population movements provides a third. Considered alongside the archaeological evidence, these themes provide a new insight into the rise and fall of cultures across the Afro-Eurasian land mass. The results of this approach include a fundamental re-writing of India?s early history and a less radical re-orientation of that of early China. The complex web of trading patterns meant that few places were economically, or culturally, isolated by the time coinage was introduced in Lydia shortly before 600 BC. (Ref: 3174 + 3175)
£150
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