By Daniel J. Pullen

This quantity brings jointly a global staff of researchers to handle how Mycenaean and Minoan states managed the financial system. The contributions, initially brought on the 2007 Langford convention on the Florida country college, research the political economies of kingdom (and pre-state) entities in the Aegean Bronze Age, together with the problems of centralization and a number of scales of creation, distribution, and intake inside a polity; significance of extraregional alternate; craft specialization; the position of non-elite associations, and the political financial system earlier than the emergence of the palaces. The participants tackle those concerns from an explicitly comparative standpoint, either inside of and throughout Minoan and Mycenaean contexts. The conclusions reached during this quantity shed new gentle at the crucial adjustments among and between "Minoan" and "Mycenaean" states via their political economies.

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