Exchange of Goods and Ideas: EAA Session, Glasgow, september 2015

Cambridge University Press. Can be ordered directly at: http://www.cambridge.org/academic/subjects/archaeology/archaeology-europe-and-near-and-middle-east/trade-and-civilisation-economic-networks-and-cultural-ties-prehistory-early-modern-era?format=HB#p6VJ94A3qBKIJ0vA.97 , 2018

This book provides the fi rst global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation around 3000 BC until the modern era around AD 1600. Encompassing the various networks including the Silk Road, the Indian Ocean trade, Near Eastern family traders of the Bronze Age, and the Medieval Hanseatic League, it examines the role of the individual merchant, the products of trade, the role of the state, and the technical conditions for land and sea transport that created diverging systems of trade and developed global trade networks. Trade networks, however, were not durable. The contributors discuss the establishment and decline of great trading network systems, and how they related to the expansion of civilisation, and to diff erent forms of social and economic exploitation. Case studies focus on local conditions as well as global networks until the sixteenth century when the whole globe was connected by trade.

Proceedings of the International Symposium “Trade and Production Through the Ages, 2008

Archaeopress Roman Archaeology, 2017

Worlds Apart Trading Together sets out to replace the outdated notion of ‘Indo-Roman trade’ with a more informed perspective integrating the new findings of the last 30 years. In order to accomplish this, a perspective focusing on concrete demand from the ground up is adopted, also shedding light on the role of the market in long-distance exchange. Accordingly, the analysis conducted demonstrates that an economically highly substantial trade took place between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean in the 1st–6th cen. CE, altering patterns of consumption and modes of production in both India, South Arabia and the Roman Empire. Significantly, it can be documented that this trade was organised at the centres of demand and supply, in Rome and India, respectively, by comparable urban associations, the transport in-between being handled by equally well-organised private networks and diasporas of seagoing merchants. Consequently, this study concludes that the institution of the market in Antiquity was able to facilitate trade over very long distances, acting on a scale which had a characteristic impact on the economies of the societies involved, their economic structures converging by adapting to trade and the market. NB: See uploaded addenda in paper below 'Worlds Apart Trading Together – addenda' Available reviews: —J. Simmons in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.09.59 (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018-09-59.html). —R. Tomber in Journal of Roman Archaeology 31, II (2018): 948–52.

Journal of Archaeological Research, 2008

After almost three centuries of investigations into the question of what it means to be human and the historical processes of becoming human, archaeologists have amassed a huge volume of data on prehistoric human interactions. One of the largest data sets available is on the global distribution and exchange of materials and commodities. What still remains insufficiently understood is the precise nature of these interactions and their role in shaping the diverse cultures that make up the human family as we know it. A plethora of theoretical models combined with a multitude of methodological approaches exist to explain one important aspect of human interaction—trade—and its role and place in shaping humanity. We argue that trade parallels political, religious, and social processes as one of the most significant factors to have affected our evolution. Here we review published literature on archaeological approaches to trade, including the primitivist-modernist and substantivist-formalist-Marxist debates. We also discuss economic, historical, and ethnographic research that directly addresses the role of traders and trade in both past and contemporary societies. In keeping with the complexities of interaction between trade and other aspects of human behavior, we suggest moving away from the either/or perspective or strong identification with any particular paradigm and suggest a return to the middle through a combinational approach to the study of trade in past societies.

Trade and Civilisation, 2018

This chapter provides a theoretical framework for the formation of international trade and civilization during the Bronze Age after 3000 BC, while at the same time it situates the various contributions within this theoretical context. The focus is thus primarily on the emergence of the constituting elements of trade, as they remained in force throughout history, and accompanied the expansion of trade and civilization. This introductory chapter thus forms a prologue to the book, while the two last chapters form the epilogue.

Vix et les éphèmères principautés Celtiques

Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology edited by Elizabeth C. Robertson, Jeffery D. Seibert, Deepika C. Fernandez, Marc U. Zender. Albuquerque: Joint Publication by the University of New Mexico Press and University of Calgary Press., 2006

Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East 1300-500 BC, edited Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia, 2016

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