Region: Global
Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies Volume 2: Local, Regional, and Imperial Economies
The second volume of the Handbook describes different extractive economies in the world regions that have been outlined in the first volume. A wide range of economic actors – from kings and armies to cities and producers – are discussed within different imperial settings as well as the tools, which enabled and constrained economic outcomes.
Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies Volume 1: Contexts
Key Note Address “Archaeology and Ancient History”
Speaker: Sitta von Reden19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn
Landscapes of commerce: a spatial approach to market systems
Speaker: Eli J. S. WeaverdyckComputer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology international conference (CAA 2018), Universität Tübingen, 8:15 – 12:15
Comparing ancient European and Indian Empires: How, what and why
Speaker: Sitta von RedenThe India International Centre in co-operation with the Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, Delhi 18:30-20:00
Alexander the Great in India: towards a transcultural understanding of cultural encounter
Speaker: Sitta von Redenin The India International Centre in cooperation with the Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, Delhi 18.30-20:00
Notes of Material Importance: Archival Archaeology in the South Caucasus
- published in Archive Journal (August 2017)This article explores the role of archaeological archives in untangling the ancient history of the South Caucasus. Archaeological datasets are uniquely diachronic. They reflect historical and environmental processes that occurred in antiquity, as well as the research questions, excavation methods and recording practices that surround their discovery. Archaeologists working in the South Caucasus, a region
Perceptions from Beyond: Some Observations on non-Roman Assessments of the Roman Empire from the Great Eastern Trade Routes
Journal of Ancient Civilizations 30 (2015) 117-149 (together with A. Kolb)
The paper offers an overview and short discussion of contemporary assessments of ‘the Romans’ and the Roman Empire in literary and documentary sources from the great Eastern trade routes between the Mediterranean Sea and Ancient China. The paper also proposes new interpretations of the
Global Economic History
This is the first attempt to write an economic history of the Afro-Eurasian region in antiquity from the first Millennium BCE to the first Millennium CE. It starts from a comparative assessment of economic structures and growth, focussing on factors such as agrarian, urban and fiscal development as well as monetization. In a second step,