Bronze Age Weight Systems as a Measure of Market Integration in Western Eurasia

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 27, e2105873118

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• causal hypothesis Multiple Largely Independent Regional Crises
  contradicts · challenges model

  Provides evidence or reasoning against Multiple Largely Independent Regional Crises.

• claim Late Bronze Age exchange and metrological interoperability created plausible channels for transmitting shortages and political disruption, but the existence of connectivity alon…
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports

  Supports the claim: Late Bronze Age exchange and metrological interoperability created plausible channels for transmitting shortages and political disruption, but the existence of connectivity alone does not prove a system-wide cascade.

• property assignment Late Bronze Age International System — has property — Systemic Network Vulnerability
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports assignment

  Interdependence could transmit disruption, although the scale and direction of specific cascades require separate testing.

• property assignment Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks — has property — Long-Distance Trade
  Evidence confidence: ◈ very high
  supports · supports assignment

  Shipwreck cargoes, metal provenance, and shared weighing systems demonstrate long-distance exchange.

• relationship Late Bronze Age International System — may have amplified — Dissolution of the Mycenaean Palatial Administrative System
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports causal relationship

  Disruption of interregional diplomacy and exchange may have amplified local political and resource stress.

• entity Late Bronze Age International System
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity record

  Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Late Bronze Age International System.

• entity Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity record

  Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks.

• causal hypothesis Economic and Exchange-Network Cascade
  supports · supports model component

  Supports one or more evidential components of Economic and Exchange-Network Cascade.

• property Systemic Network Vulnerability
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Systemic Network Vulnerability.

• property Resource Network
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Resource Network.