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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 5482041, member: 84744"]Cool! Pasting in some details and linking the photo for a quick overview:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>Jan. 20 (UPI) -- New research suggests groups of farmers living in Central Europe were exchanging standardized money -- in the form of bronze rings and ribs -- during the early Bronze Age, nearly 4,000 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to the latest archaeological analysis, described Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, the use of standardized money in Central Europe may have developed independently from money systems that emerged in the Far East and Mediterranean.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kuijpers and Leiden colleague Catalin Popa used a psychology principle called the Weber fraction to analyze more than 5,000 bronze objects.</p><p><br /></p><p>"We went back to this data, added a lot more and -- importantly -- developed a novel method to calculate standardization from the perspective that people in the past were not weighing with the use of scales, but with their hands," Kuijpers said.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Weber fraction describes differences in weight that are imperceptible to human hands - when two objects are similar enough in weight, they feel the same in a person's hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>Researchers determined 70 percent of the bronze rings were within the Weber fraction. Smaller but significant portions of the ribs and axes also fell within the Weber fraction.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Kuijpers and Popa, their analysis confirms the bronze objects as convertible money, used to facilitate fair exchanges between local economies and agricultural societies.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>The article has a photo of the ribs, but they really should have pictured the rings instead.</p><p><img src="https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/i/4251611169852/2021/1/16111832119201/Objects-suggest-Europeans-used-standardized-money-4000-years-ago.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 5482041, member: 84744"]Cool! Pasting in some details and linking the photo for a quick overview: [INDENT]Jan. 20 (UPI) -- New research suggests groups of farmers living in Central Europe were exchanging standardized money -- in the form of bronze rings and ribs -- during the early Bronze Age, nearly 4,000 years ago. According to the latest archaeological analysis, described Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, the use of standardized money in Central Europe may have developed independently from money systems that emerged in the Far East and Mediterranean. Kuijpers and Leiden colleague Catalin Popa used a psychology principle called the Weber fraction to analyze more than 5,000 bronze objects. "We went back to this data, added a lot more and -- importantly -- developed a novel method to calculate standardization from the perspective that people in the past were not weighing with the use of scales, but with their hands," Kuijpers said. The Weber fraction describes differences in weight that are imperceptible to human hands - when two objects are similar enough in weight, they feel the same in a person's hands. Researchers determined 70 percent of the bronze rings were within the Weber fraction. Smaller but significant portions of the ribs and axes also fell within the Weber fraction. According to Kuijpers and Popa, their analysis confirms the bronze objects as convertible money, used to facilitate fair exchanges between local economies and agricultural societies.[/INDENT] The article has a photo of the ribs, but they really should have pictured the rings instead. [IMG]https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/i/4251611169852/2021/1/16111832119201/Objects-suggest-Europeans-used-standardized-money-4000-years-ago.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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