María Paz García-Bellido (edicion) Affiliation: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto de Historia (Madrid, España) Biography: María Paz García-Bellido y García de Diego es Investigadora Científica del CSIC y ha sido durante diez años Profesora Titular de la Universidad de Salamanca. Sus trabajos versan especialmente sobre Numismática antigua, haciendo uso de la moneda como documento primordial para estudios étnicos, religiosos, lingüísticos, políticos y económicos. Sus publicaciones han sido editadas en Alemania, España, Francia, Gran Bretaña y EEUU. Es miembro correspondiente del Deutsches Archäologisches Institut de Berlín y de la American Numismatic Society de Nueva York. Laurent Callegarin (edicion) Affiliation: Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (Francia) Biography: Not available Alicia Jiménez Díez (edicion) Affiliation: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto de Historia (Madrid, España) Biography: Not available |
Edition: María Paz García-Bellido; Laurent Callegarin; Alicia Jiménez Díez Publication year: 2011 Language: English; Spanish; French; Italian; Portuguese Subjects: Archaeology and Prehistory Collection: Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología |
Abstract:
This book revolves around the theme: The Invention of Coinage. Barter, Money and Coinage in the Ancient Mediterranean. We have approached the transcendental steps that Humanity had to take to develop a monetary economy and the historical circumstances in which this, or rather, these, changes took place. It is a foremost topic which scholars from many different countries, together with those of us present today and many others, have been working on for years, although in a regional or territorial way. That is why we felt it was necessary for us to come together to bring and examine general approaches regarding the impact that the invention of money had on the different Mediterranean cultures. Coinage is, together with Writing, one of the greatest inventions in the history of Humankind. Writing has been essential in transmitting ideas and knowledge down through the ages, and money has played a huge role in fermenting the political and social evolution of human groups. Very few things have conditioned the economy as directly as coinage has, with its concomitant effects on the political ideologies of our universe.
Physical Description : 395 p. : il., gráf., mapas, planos ; 28 cm
ISBN: 978-84-00-09326-6
eISBN: 978-84-00-09327-3
Publication: Madrid : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2011
Reference CSIC: 11936
Other data: Congreso. Actas del IV Encuentro Penínsular de Numismática Antigua, Madrid, 2010
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