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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 Eight - Trade and Calusa Complexity
Achieving Resilience in a Changing Environment
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
Scholarly interest in the emergence of social complexity is often intertwined with inquiries into reciprocity and trade. The stage was set for this research focus in the mid to late twentieth century with advances in dating techniques, new methods for tracing the origins of certain widely traded materials, improved ways of assessing food-consumption patterns and season of site occupation, multiscalar settlement studies, discussions about the applicability of various economic models, and debates between cultural evolutionists and those who embraced various strands of Marxism.
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- Trade before CivilizationLong Distance Exchange and the Rise of Social Complexity, pp. 173 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022