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How Ancient Economies Fell Apart: Interview with Professor Sarah Murray

Tides of History

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Are You Using Quantitative Methods?

archaeological data is just like a chicken pot pie with a hard exterior and then a gooy interior, says Riht. "If the data itself is bad or flawed or biased in some way, it's not really going to tell you a whole lot," writes Riht. If we're ing to try to measure the performance of these economies, howe they changed over time, we can be creative, he adds. 'We can come up with our best estimates for these kind of archaeological, invisible aspects of trade'

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