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To: SunkenCiv
We also learn from these valuable finds that the residents of the building were also engaged in barter.

How do we know they didn't use currency?

6 posted on 08/06/2010 4:05:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Steampunk Baby and the Quest for Bill's iPod - now on DVD!)
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To: Tax-chick

Figures that a currency question would come from the Tax-chick. ;’)

Coin was not invented until the Lydians did it circa a thousand years after this bracelet went into the soil.


13 posted on 08/06/2010 4:30:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Tax-chick

Wampum had not yet been discovered. That would take another 3100 years when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth!


15 posted on 08/06/2010 4:32:02 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Tax-chick

Because the Canaanites were all tax-dodgers ... sheesh, don’t you know your ancient history?


16 posted on 08/06/2010 4:33:19 PM PDT by ikka
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