De Poids et de Mesure Les instruments de pesée en Europe occidentale durant les âges des Métaux (XIVe-IIIe s. a.C.) Conception, usages et utilisateurs

• Main Author: Poigt, Thibaud (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Pessac Ausonius éditions 2023
• Series: DAN@ 8
• Subjects: Landscape archaeology; History: earliest times to present day; Archaeology; Protohistory; Bronze Age; Iron Age; Western Europe; England; Spain; France; Portugal; Switzerland; Gauls; Celts; Iberians; Celtiberians; Phoenicians; Tartessos; habitats; deposits; funerary; metrology; unit of measurement; weight system; economy; production; exchange; consumption; weight; scales; currency
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The use of weighing instruments and the handling of concepts of counting and measuring by Late Prehistory societies have been the subject of few systematic studies in archaeology. This book, resulting from a doctoral thesis, offers a diachronic analysis of weights and balance elements discovered in...