Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The dark light of Early Greek texts on trade; 2. Direct evidence for long-distance exchange from Early Greece; 3. Assessing quantitative change in the archaeological record; 4. Bronze deposition (and circulation?), trade in commodities, and evidence from around the Mediterranean; 5. Demographic and domestic economic change in Early Greece: factors of supply and demand; 6. Snapshots of a trade economy in flux; Conclusions; References; Index.

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This book provides a comprehensive treatment of change in long-distance exchange systems during the collapse of Mycenaean Greece.

About the Author

Sarah Murray is an Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies and a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She has also taught at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where she was a Visiting Assistant Professor. She has over ten years of field experience as an archaeologist in Greece, most recently as photogrammetry specialist at the Mazi Archaeological Project in West Attica. Murray has written articles on digital field methods, historiography, and early Greece for the Journal of Field Archaeology, and Hesperia.