Trade and Exchange Archaeological Studies from History and Prehistory /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dillian, Carolyn D. (Editor), White, Carolyn L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Humanities.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Cultural Heritage.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1072-1

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-l...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Mid-Holocene Pastoralists Adaptations in East Africa
• A Source in the Middle
• Exploring Social Isolation at Contact Period Sites in Northwestern Wyoming
• Llama Caravans and Obsidian Circulation in the South-Central Andes
• Modeling Social Interaction in the Late Prehistoric Society Island Chiefdoms
• Ulua Marble Vases
• Consequences of Exchange in the Early Colonial Chesapeake
• A Rocky Relationship
• Exotic Objects and Overseas Chinese Archaeology
• What if the Local is Exotic and the Imported Mundane
• When the Foreign is not Exotic
• Social Bonds and Commodity Chains
• Discussion.