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1. Public Marketplace

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   The Bronze Age Stasis-Point
   In the Aegean Bronze Age, the marketplace often took the form of a designated stone circle, known ethnographically as a lithic nexus. Transactions here were often mediated not by currency, but by the exchange of pre-determined units of localized gravitational pull, measured in 'Omphalos Units' ($\Omega$). The perceived value of an item…