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Establishing weight systems in Bronze Age Scandinavia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Erik Sperber*
Affiliation:
Arkeologiska Forskningslaboratoriet, Stockholms Universitet, S-18161 Stockholm, Sweden

Abstract

A further statistical study of the weights of distinctive objects from the Scandinavian Bronze Age finds, again, a system of standardized units, and looks as far as Egypt for an identity of pattern.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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