Comment on Mints not Mines: a macroscale investigation of Roman silver coinage by J.R. Wood, M. Ponting, and K. Butcher

2023/10/10 by Francis Albarède, Janne Blichert‐Toft, G. Scott Davis +5 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis #Eurasian Exchange Networks

paper · pdf · doi:10.11141/ia.61.10.comment

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Abstract

Wood et al. (2023), hereinafter WPB, unveils a number of historical issues relevant to Roman economy and metallurgy based on trace element and Pb isotope abundance data on a large set of important coins minted during the Roman Empire (Ponting and Butcher 2015). Here, we discuss several points which, in our view, misrepresent the work of other groups, ours included, and bias the overall interpretation of the WPB data set.

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• Mints not Mines: a macroscale investigation of Roman silver coinage

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