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    "o:id": 11801,
    "url": "https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/11801",
    "o:resource_template": "Academic Article",
    "o:resource_class": "bibo:AcademicArticle",
    "dcterms:title": [
        "The earliest balance weights in the West: Towards an independent metrology for Bronze age Europe"
    ],
    "dcterms:creator": [
        "Ialongo, Nicola"
    ],
    "dcterms:date": [
        "2019"
    ],
    "dcterms:language": [
        "eng"
    ],
    "dcterms:abstract": [
        "Weighing devices are the earliest material correlates of the rational quantification of economic value, and they yield great potential in the study of trade in pre-literate societies. However, the knowledge of European Bronze Age metrology is still underdeveloped in comparison to Eastern Mediterranean regions, mostly due to the lack of a proper scientific debate. This paper introduces a theoretical and methodological framework for the study of standard weight-systems in pre-literate societies, and tests it on a large sample of potential balance weights distributed between Southern Italy and Central Europe during the Bronze Age (second–early first millennium bc). A set of experimental expectations is defined on the basis of comparisons with ancient texts, archaeological cases and modern behaviour. Concurrent typological, use-wear, statistical and contextual analyses allow to cross-check the evidence against the expectations, and to validate the balance-weight hypothesis for the sample under analysis. The paper urges a reappraisal of an independent weight metrology for Bronze Age Europe, based on adequate methodologies and a critical perspective."
    ],
    "dcterms:isPartOf": [
        "Cambridge Archaeological Journal"
    ],
    "bibo:citedBy": [
        "11060"
    ],
    "bibo:doi": [
        "https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774318000392"
    ],
    "bibo:issn": [
        "0959-7743, 1474-0540"
    ],
    "bibo:issue": [
        "1"
    ],
    "bibo:pages": [
        "103-124"
    ],
    "bibo:uri": [
        "https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/earliest-balance-weights-in-the-west-towards-an-independent-metrology-for-bronze-age-europe/14B2F876E9CAAD0A42BD98F995BB71D4"
    ],
    "bibo:volume": [
        "29"
    ],
    "foaf:homepage": [
        "https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/HKE6SFNE/item-list"
    ]
},