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Author(s): Timothy Earle

Year: 2025

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Crafting a Legacy in Archaeology: Papers Celebrating the Career of Ken Hirth" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

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<b>With a lifetime’s work on prehistoric economies, Ken Hirth published a synthetic book The Organization of Ancient Economies (CUP, 2020). Impressed by the creativity and comprehensiveness of his synthesis, I proposed a collaboration with him on a working group with knowledge of particular cases across time and the world. With funding from Wenner-Gren, and after two COVID delays, our group of 11 met for a week at the Amerind Foundation to compare ‘our’ economies according to eight themes. My presentation now describes the working group, Ken's guiding role, and the results being published as Premodern Economies: A Global Perspective.</b>

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Ken Hirth and Premodern Economies . Timothy Earle. Presented at The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2025 ( tDAR id: 509555)

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 51442