Aegean Bronze Age Weights, Chaînes Opératoires and the Detecting of Patterns through Statistical Analyses

Jari Pakkanen

Aegean Bronze Age Weights, Chaînes Opératoires and the Detecting of Patterns through Statistical Analyses

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Abstract

The chapter employs quantum model statistics and chaîne opératoire concept to study metrology of Bronze Age Aegean balance weights. The analyses demonstrate that there were two main units in use, not only one: the probable mass of the Aegean unit is c. 60.5g and of the second c. 8.5g. Historical Athenian weights are used to demonstrate that even problematic lead weights can produce statistically significant patterns if the data set is sufficiently large. Among the weights from the Uluburun shipwreck a set of Aegean weights can be identified, thus supporting the hypothesis that there were Mycenaean merchants aboard.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology
Subtitle of host publication	A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean
Editors	Ann Brysbaert
Place of Publication	New York and London
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	143–166
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-203-15617-9
ISBN (Print)	978-0-415-89616-0
Publication status	Published - 2011

Publication series

Name	Routledge Studies in Archaeology
Publisher	Routledge
Volume	3

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Pakkanen, J. (2011). Aegean Bronze Age Weights, Chaînes Opératoires and the Detecting of Patterns through Statistical Analyses. In A. Brysbaert (Ed.), Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology: A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean (pp. 143–166). (Routledge Studies in Archaeology; Vol. 3). Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415896160/

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Pakkanen, J 2011, Aegean Bronze Age Weights, Chaînes Opératoires and the Detecting of Patterns through Statistical Analyses. in A Brysbaert (ed.), Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology: A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean. Routledge Studies in Archaeology, vol. 3, Routledge, New York and London, pp. 143–166. <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415896160/>

Aegean Bronze Age Weights, Chaînes Opératoires and the Detecting of Patterns through Statistical Analyses. / Pakkanen, Jari.
Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology: A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean. ed. / Ann Brysbaert. New York and London: Routledge, 2011. p. 143–166 (Routledge Studies in Archaeology; Vol. 3).

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