"Trade before Civilization explores the role that long-distance exchange played in the establishment and/or maintenance of social complexity, and its role in the transformation of societies from egalitarian to non-egalitarian. Bringing together research by an international and methodologically diverse team of scholars, it analyses the relationship between long-distance trade and the rise of inequality. The volume illustrates how elites used exotic prestige goods to enhance and maintain their elevated social positions in society. Global in scope, it offers case studies of early societies and sites in Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America, and Mesoamerica. Deploying a range of inter-disciplinary and cuttingedge theoretical approaches from a cross-cultural framework, the volume offers new insights and enhances our understanding of socio-political evolution. It will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, conflict theorists, and ethnohistorians, as well as economists seeking to understand the nexus between imported luxury items and cultural evolution"--
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This volume analyses the relationship between long-distance trade and the rise of inequality and social complexity.
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1 New Perspectives On Long-Distance Trade And Social Complexity |
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PART I EXCHANGE AND SOCIAL EVOLUTION: FORMS OF TRADE IN EGALITARIAN, TRANSEGALITARIAN, AND CHIEFDOM SOCIETIES |
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2 Funnel Beaker Societies And Longdistance Trade |
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3 Stonehenge: Long-Distance Exchange In Late Neolithic Britain C. 3000-2450 Bc |
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4 Bronze Age Long-Distance Exchange, Secret Societies, Rock Art, And The Supra Regional Interaction Hypothesis |
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5 Rethinking The Prestige Economy And Its Role In Trade And Exchange: The Dominance Economy In Contact-Era New Guinea |
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PART II THE ROLE THAT SPECIFIC INSTITUTIONS AND AGENTS PLAYED IN LONG-DISTANCE EXCHANGE |
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6 Middle Bronze Age Long-Distance Exchange: Amber, Early Glass And Guest Friendship, Xenia |
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7 Culture Heroes, Inalienable Goods, And Religious Sodalities: Long-Distance Exchange In Eastern North America At European Contact |
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8 Trade And Calusa Complexity: Achieving Resilience In A Changing Environment |
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PART III THE ROLE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AND ELITE CONTROL IN LONG-DISTANCE EXCHANGE |
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9 Lapita Long-Distance Interactions In The Western Pacific: From Prestige Goods To Prestige Practices |
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10 Trade And The Hillfort Chiefdoms Of Bronze Age Ireland |
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11 The Turquoise Corridor: Mesoamerican Prestige Technologies And Social Complexity In The Greater Southwest |
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PART IV MARXIAN AND POSTCOLONIAL APPROACHES AS WELL AS WORLD SYSTEM THEORY IN RELATION TO GIFT EXCHANGE AND MACROREGIONAL EXCHANGE |
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12 Value And The Articulation Of Modes Of Re-Production |
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13 Entrepreneurs, Metals And Change: Scandinavia Meets Its Neighbours In The Earliest Bronze Age |
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14 Long-Distance Interaction In Fourth Millennium Bce Eurasia |
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15 Following The Bread Crumbs: Epistemological And Methodological Issues In The Interpretations Of Long-Distance Trade In The Caribbean |
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PART V COMMENTARY ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS VOLUME |
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16 Political Economy Perspectives In Trade Before And Beyond Civilizations |
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Johan Ling is a Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg. He is also Director of the Rock Art Research Archives (SHFA). His research interests include Bronze Age rock art, warfare, long distance exchange, secret societies, and the rise of social complexity. He has conducted archaeological excavations throughout Scandinavia. Richard J. Chacon is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Winthrop University. His research interests include indigenous peoples, warfare, long distance exchange, secret societies, and the rise of social complexity. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the following indigenous groups: Yora, Yanomamö, Achuar, Cotacachi, Otavalo, and Haida. Kristian Kristiansen is a Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg. His research interests include the Bronze Age, archaeological theory and archaeological heritage. He has also explored the movement of people, things, animals, and ideas in antiquity. He has conducted archaeological excavations in Sicily, Hungary, Denmark, and Sweden.
