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Inferreing Markets from Material Remains: Hirth’s Distributional Approach in the Light of Economic Theory (2017)
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Hirth 1998 proposed identifying archeologically the operation of mar- kets in ancient societies by looking at the distribution patterns of selected objects across households of different types. This paper revisits criti- cally this so called `distributional approach' and argues that it essentially amounts to a (failed) attempt at `estimating' a (say, Classic Maya) market demand from archeologically recovered consumption data. Such an un- dertaking, besides facing considerable identification...