Ancient market activities are dynamic in the economies of most ancient states, yet they have received little research from the archaeological community. Archaeo

Volume 37 of REA features eleven original articles organized in four different sections, each focusing on a specific, popular and significant theme in economic

Markets emerge in recent historical research as important spheres of economic interaction in ancient societies. In the case of ancient Egypt, traditional models

In the context of commodification, material culture has particular properties hitherto considered irrelevant or neglected. First, the market is a spatial struct

Trading was the favorite occupation of the Maya, according to early Spanish observers such as Fray Diego de Landa (1566). Yet scholars of the Maya have long dis