"“The same conclusion of the existence of foreigners is also indicated by the use of many exotic and prestigious objects, often made of silver. This metal was not readily available in EBA Thrace. We can also note that tin-bronzes may have arrived into this region via Anatolia rather than Europe […] and it is difficult to imagine how such a quantity and quality, and the imaginations and customs behind these, can be transferred to Europe without having individuals or groups of people carrying them, and the infrastructure to organise their transport and wider distribution” “There can be no doubt that the driving force behind this influx of goods and people is enhanced exchange and organised trade, and it is in no way an accident that concurrently the largest exchange network the world had seen up until then arrived at its peak. This network was centred in southern Mesopotamia, a region that had been fully urbanised for at least a millennium, and it stretched from as far away as western India on one side to southeast Europe on the other, and it also incorporated large parts of Central Asia”"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Volker Heyd, Kanlıgeçit – Selimpaşa – Mikhalich and the Question of Anatolian Colonies in Early Bronze Age Southeast Europe, Heyd et al. 2016. quoted in [https://adnaera.com/2024/12/08/origins-and-spread-of-indo-european-languages-an-alternative-view/ Ancient DNA Era
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thrace
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Thrace
2 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Thrace →
Related Quotes
"While the first half of the 3rd millennium BC in Thrace is characterised by a (comparatively) moderate level of socia…"
"It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not…"
"Hunger turned some people into cannibals. This was a much more common phenomenon than historians have previously assu…"
"Excavations in the Chancelade quarries, where it will be remembered a landslip occurred last October burying a number…"
"A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess…"
"My passion is so great. I want to eat her. If I do she will be mine forever. There is no escape from this desire."
"About Perth, there was a countrie Sae waste, that wonder wes to see; For intill well-great space thereby, Wes nother …"
"Such suffering from hunger grew up around these cities that the Christians, in the face of the scarcity about which y…"
"The fact is that in Europe, faced with the choice between human rights and gas, many politicians pick gas."
"But in the period 3100-2900 BC came a clear and dramatic infusion of Yamna [= Pontic] cultural practice, including bu…"