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How Ancient Economies Fell Apart: Interview with Professor Sarah Murray

Tides of History

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Is It a Thug Momopiosis?

A lot of these models about, like the prestige value of the exotic im come from antological or ethno archaeological studies. And they did have this sort of power as a evidence of distance rit like, there's a lot of really good scholarship written on this kind of model. At the bronze age states, maybe, though, were less interested in that kind of display. I more, as you say, interested an like a sort of hard matter of governing the territory,. Which is, you know, you have to use coercive force to maintain the order. And i think swords were helpful with that. So it makes them seem like sort of more pragmatic, i suppose, which is interesting

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