Trade before Civilization
Long Distance Exchange and the Rise of Social Complexity

Table of Contents

1. New perspectives on long-distance trade and social complexity Johan Ling, Richard J. Chacon, and Kristian Kristiansen
Part I. Exchange and Social Evolution: Forms of Trade in Egalitarian, Transegalitarian, and Chiefdom Societies:
2. Funnel beaker societies and long-distance trade Johannes Müller
3. Stonehenge: Long-distance exchange in Late Neolithic Britain c.3000–2450 BC Michael Parker Pearson
4. Secret societies, rock art, and long-distance exchange in the Nordic Bronze Age: The supra-regional interaction hypothesis Johan Ling, Richard J. Chacon, and Yamilette Chacon
5. Trade, exchange, and the workings of a “prestige” economy in contact-era New Guinea Paul Roscoe
Part II. The Role That Specific Institutions and Agents Played in Long-Distance Exchange:
6. Middle Bronze Age long-distance exchange: amber, early glass, and guest friendship, xenia Flemming Kaul
7. Culture heroes, inalienable goods, and religious sodalities: long distance exchange in eastern North America at European contact David Dye
8. Trade and Calusa complexity: achieving resilience in a changing environment William Marquardt
Part III. The Role of Political Economy and Elite Control in Long-Distance Exchange:
9. Lapita long-distance interactions in the Western Pacific: from prestige goods to prestige practices Matthew Spriggs
10. Trade and the Hillfort chiefdoms of Bronze Age Ireland William O'Brien
11. Long-distance exchange between the Eastern Mediterranean and Central and Northern Europe in the Bronze Age: social, political and religious background Rudiger Krause
12. The Turquoise Corridor: Mesoamerican prestige technologies and social complexity in the Greater Southwest Rubén Mendoza
Part IV. Marxian and Postcolonial Approaches as Well as World System Theory in Relation to Gift Exchange, and Macro-Regional Exchange:
13. Accumulation and the articulation of modes of re-production Michael Rowlands
14. Scandinavia and Europe in the Earliest Bronze Age: metals, trade, and change Helle Vandkilde
15. Long-distance interaction in fourth-millennium BCE Eurasia Svend Hansen
16. Following the breadcrumbs: epistemological and methodological issues in the interpretations of long-distance trade in the Caribbean Antonio Curet and Jose R. Oliver
Part V. Commentary on Contributions to This Volume:
17. Political economy perspectives in trade before and beyond civilizations Brian Hayden and Timothy Earle.

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