FLAME: Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The State of the Art in Medieval European Archaeology: New Discoveries, Future Directions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The FLAME project is a collaborative effort of a dozen scholars worldwide to track the production and circulation of coinage in western Eurasia from CE 325-750 in order to investigate the transition from ancient economies to those of the Middle Ages in Europe, North Africa, and Western and Central Asia. The core of the project is a database with two distinct data sets. The first data set records all of the coinage issues throughout the regions and periods under study and presents the data either as maps or data that can be customized by time spans and regions and can be downloaded as data; this phase of the project is online at coinage.princeton.edu . The second database includes the records of hundreds of thousands of finds of coins of the period throughout the regions under study; it uses input from published reports and the transfer of data from ongoing surveys in Great Britain and Israel. The 2019 SAA Annual Meeting will represent the first public presentation of the query, report, and mapping capabilities of the circulation phase of the project.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The State of the Art in Medieval European Archaeology: New Discoveries, Future Directions   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23694