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- Trade before Civilization
- Trade before Civilization
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter One New Perspectives on Long-Distance Trade and Social Complexity
- Part I Exchange and Social Evolution: Forms of Trade in Egalitarian, Transegalitarian, and Chiefdom Societies
- Part II The Role That Specific Institutions And Agents Played in Long-Distance Exchange
- Chapter Six Middle Bronze Age Long-Distance Exchange
- Chapter Seven Culture Heroes, Inalienable Goods, and Religious Sodalities
- Chapter Eight Trade and Calusa Complexity
- Part III The Role of Political Economy and Elite Control in Long-Distance Exchange
- Part IV Marxian And Post-Colonial Approaches as well as World System Theory in Relation to Gift Exchange and MacroRegional Exchange
- Part V Commentary on Contributions to This Volume
- Index
- References
Chapter Six - Middle Bronze Age Long-Distance Exchange
Amber, Early Glass and Guest Friendship, Xenia
from Part II - The Role That Specific Institutions And Agents Played in Long-Distance Exchange
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 August 2022
- Trade before Civilization
- Trade before Civilization
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter One New Perspectives on Long-Distance Trade and Social Complexity
- Part I Exchange and Social Evolution: Forms of Trade in Egalitarian, Transegalitarian, and Chiefdom Societies
- Part II The Role That Specific Institutions And Agents Played in Long-Distance Exchange
- Chapter Six Middle Bronze Age Long-Distance Exchange
- Chapter Seven Culture Heroes, Inalienable Goods, and Religious Sodalities
- Chapter Eight Trade and Calusa Complexity
- Part III The Role of Political Economy and Elite Control in Long-Distance Exchange
- Part IV Marxian And Post-Colonial Approaches as well as World System Theory in Relation to Gift Exchange and MacroRegional Exchange
- Part V Commentary on Contributions to This Volume
- Index
- References
Summary
The Bronze Age was a time of long-distance exchange. The introduction of the folding stool and the single-edged razor into Southern Scandinavia, as well as the testimony of chariot use during the Nordic Bronze Age Period II (1500–1300 bc), give evidence of transfer of ideas from the Mediterranean to the North. Amber, from the North to the Mediterranean and even beyond, and beads of Egyptian and Mesopotamian glass from Nordic Bronze Age burials, provide physical evidence of long-distance exchange.
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- Trade before CivilizationLong Distance Exchange and the Rise of Social Complexity, pp. 109 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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