Multivariate money : a statistical analysis of Roman Republican coin hoards with special reference to material from Romania
The aim of this thesis is assess the usefulness of the statistical analysis of coin hoards for the examination of aspects of ancient societies including coin use and exchange. Special attention was paid to various aspects of âformation processes.â The thesis was divided into three parts. Part I â Background. This Part initially reviews the history of the project and then goes on to examine the concept of money in the light of anthropological and economic work. A brief discussion of types of exchange (gift, barter, commodity exchange) in societies is offered. The Part is concluded with a review of previous statistical analyses of coin assemblages. Part IIâAnalysing Hoards A large database of Roman Republican coin hoards was collected for this project. The problems with this type of data, its storage and retrieval are discussed. The database is then analysed in great detail in order to answer a series of numismatic, archaeological and statistical questions. Correspondence analysis was used on twenty-two subsets of the data to reveal patterning in the data-set which is discussed. A new variant of cluster analysis was developed to subdivide the data set whilst minimising the time series element. The results
Lockyear, K.
Multivariate money : a statistical analysis of Roman Republican coin hoards with special reference to material from Romania. The aim of this thesis is assess the usefulness of the statistical analysis of coin hoards for the examination of aspects of ancient societies including coin use and exchange. Special attention was paid to various aspects of âformation processes.â The thesis was divided into three parts. Part I â Background. This Part initially reviews the history of the project and then goes on to examine the concept of money in the light of anthropological and economic work. A brief discussion of types of exchange (gift, barter, commodity exchange) in societies is offered. The Part is concluded with a review of previous statistical analyses of coin assemblages. Part IIâAnalysing Hoards A large database of Roman Republican coin hoards was collected for this project. The problems with this type of data, its storage and retrieval are discussed. The database is then analysed in great detail in order to answer a series of numismatic, archaeological and statistical questions. Correspondence analysis was used on twenty-two subsets of the data to reveal patterning in the data-set which is discussed. A new variant of cluster analysis was developed to subdivide the data set whilst minimising the time series element. The results
multivariate money statistical_analysis roman_republican coin_hoard special_reference material romania aim_ass usefulness statistical_analysis coin_hoard examination aspect ancient_society include coin_use exchange special_attention_pay various_aspect formation_process divide_three_part part background part initially review history project_examine concept money light anthropological economic work brief_discussion type exchange gift commodity exchange society offer part conclude review_previous statistical_analysis coin assemblage part analysing large_database roman_republican coin_hoard collect project problem type data storage retrieval discuss database analyse great_detail order answer series numismatic archaeological statistical question correspondence_analysis use twenty_two subset data_reveal pattern data_set discuss new variant cluster_analysis develop subdivide data_set whilst minimise time_series element