Believing the ancients: Quantitative and qualitative dimensions of slavery and the slave trade in later prehistoric Eurasia

@article{Taylor2001BelievingTA,
  title={Believing the ancients: Quantitative and qualitative dimensions of slavery and the slave trade in later prehistoric Eurasia},
  author={Timothy F. Taylor},
  journal={World Archaeology},
  year={2001},
  volume={33},
  pages={27 - 43}
}
  • T. Taylor
  • Published 1 January 2001
  • History
  • World Archaeology
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… 
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