Overview
Editors offer a new perspective by focussing on trade and exchange practices
Features case studies from all over the world, in historic and prehistoric periods
Comprehensive examination combines archaeological evidence with cultural studies
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Prehistoric Exchange
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Front Matter
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Historic Exchange
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Front Matter
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Discussion
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Back Matter
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About this book
Long before the advent of the global economy, foreign goods were transported, traded, and exchanged through myriad means, over short and long distances. Archaeological tools for identifying foreign objects, such as provenance studies, stylistic analyses, and economic documentary sources reveal non-local materials in historic and prehistoric assemblages.
Trade and exchange represent more than mere production and consumption. Exchange of goods also led to an exchange of cultural and social experiences. Discoveries of the sources of alien objects surpass archaeological expectations of exchange and geographic distance, revealing important technological advances.
With thirteen case studies from around the world, this comprehensive work provides a fresh perspective on material culture studies. Evidence of ongoing negotiation between individuals, villages, and nations provides insight into the impact of trade on the micro-, meso-, and macro-level. Covering a wide array of time periods and areas, this work will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, and anyone working in cultural studies.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trade and Exchange
Book Subtitle: Archaeological Studies from History and Prehistory
Editors: Carolyn D. Dillian, Carolyn L. White
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1072-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-1071-4Published: 17 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8438-8Published: 26 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-1072-1Published: 05 December 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 227
Topics: Archaeology, Life Sciences, general, Anthropology, Cultural Heritage