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
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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)
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
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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