Article Title：Believing the ancients: Quantitative and qualitative dimensions of slavery and the slave trade in alter prehistoric Eurasia
Abstract：
This paper briefly examines two types of slavery in the first millennium Aegean, Carpatho-Balkan and Pontic regions--branded silver-mine slaves and blinded milk-processing slaves. The first is examined primarily in quantitative terms, to attach economically sensible order-of-magnitude figures to the trade in people. The second is examined qualitatively, to show how indigenous forms of dependence and subordination were caught up in the emergence of Graeco- Roman chattel slavery. In both cases I have taken the rather unusual step of trusting what the classical authors tell us they knew. Finally, a symbolic connection is made between shackles and torcs.
Keywords: ancient economy; Celts; freedom; Scythians; silver mining; slavery torcs
DOI: 10.1080/00438240120047618
Source：WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY
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