Complexity of Commerce over 3,000 Years Ago
People in England were using balance weights and scales to measure the value of materials as early as the late second and early first millennia BC. This is what Professor Lorenz Rahmstorf, scientist at the University of Göttingen and project manager of the ERC “Weight and Value” project, has discovered.
Gold flange twisted spiral torc (around 15cm long; 367.1 g) from Castlemount, Dover, Kent, England.
Contacts and sources:
University of Göttingen
Citation: Scales, weights and weight-regulated artefacts in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain Lorenz Rahmstorf.. Antiquity 2019. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.257.
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2019/08/complexity-of-commerce-over-3000-years.html
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