Merchants, Measures and Money

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Rahmstorf, geboren 1970 in Frankfurt a. M., Studium der Ur- und Frühgeschichte in Heidelberg und Bristol (GB), Promotion am Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität Heidelberg 2002, Hablilitation in Vor- und Frühgeschichte an der Universität Mainz 2012, aktuell Professor am Seminar für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität Göttingen. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Späte Kupferzeit, Bronzezeit, frühe Eisenzeit, Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Kulturkontakte und Austausch, Komparative Archäologie und Kleinfunde (besonders Gewichte). ORCID: 0000-0002-9975-3314

Gojko Barjamovic is Senior Lecturer on Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, USA. His field of interest is the history of Assyria in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC with particular focus on the study of trade during the Old Assyrian period. His publications include inter alia: A Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period (2011) and Libraries Before Alexandria (2019). ORCID: 0000-0002-7455-946X

Nicola Ialongo is postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-2014-CoG 'WEIGHTANDVALUE" at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. He received his PhD at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy. His interests comprise prehistoric economy and trade, religion and power in prehistoric societies, Bronze Age hoards and votive depositions, relative chronology of the European Bronze Age and statistical methods in archaeological research.   ORCID: 0000-0002-3703-4808