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Trade before civilization, long-distance exchange and the rise of social complexity, edited by Johan Ling, Richard J. Chacon, Kristian Kristiansen

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Trade before civilization

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edited by Johan Ling, Richard J. Chacon, Kristian Kristiansen

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long-distance exchange and the rise of social complexity

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 cutting-edge 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.--, Provided by publisher

New perspectives on long-distance trade and social complexity / Johan Ling, Richard J. Chacon, and Kristian Kristiansen -- Funnel beaker societies and long distance trade / Johannes Müller -- Stonehenge : long-distance exchange in late Neolithic Britain c.3000-2450 BC / Michael Parker Pearson -- Secret societies, rock art, and long distance exchange in the Nordic Bronze Age : the supra regional interaction hypothesis / Johan Ling, Richard Chacon, and Yamilette Chacon -- Trade, exchange, and the workings of a 'prestige' economy in contact-era New Guinea / Paul Roscoe -- Middle Bronze Age long distance exchange : amber, early glass, and guest friendship, xenia / Flemming Kaul -- Culture hero, inalienable goods, and religious sodalities : long distance exchange in Eastern North America at European contact / David Dye -- Trade and Calusa complexity : achieving resilience in a changing environment / William Marquardt -- Lapita long-distance interactions in the Western Pacific : from prestige goods to prestige practices / Matthew Spriggs -- Trade and the Hillfort chiefdoms of Bronze Age Ireland / William O'Brien -- Long distance exchange between the Eastern Mediterranean and Central and Northern Europe in the Bronze Age : social, political and religious background / Rudiger Krause -- The turquoise corridor : Mesoamerican prestige technologies and social complexity in the Greater Southwest / Rubén Mendoza -- Accumulation and the articulation of modes of re-production / Michael Rowlands -- Scandinavia & Europe in the earliest Bronze Age : metals, trade, and change / Helle Vandkilde -- Long distance interaction in 4th millennium BCE Eurasia / Svend Hansen -- Following the bread crumbs : epistemological and methodological issues in the interpretations of long-distance trade in the Caribbean / Antonio Curet and Jose R. Oliver -- Political economy perspectives in trade before and beyond civilizations / Brian Hayden and Timothy Earle