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The archaeology of trade and exchange is a sub-discipline of archaeology that identifies how material goods and ideas moved across human populations. The terms “trade” and “exchange” have slightly different connotations: trade focuses on the long-distance circulation of material goods; exchange considers the transfer of persons and ideas.
The antiquities trade is the exchange of antiquities and archaeological artifacts from around the world. This trade may be illicit or completely legal. The legal antiquities trade abides by national regulations, allowing for extraction of artifacts for scientific study whilst maintaining archaeological and anthropological context.
The Norse Vikings had a big, expansive and planned out trade network.Trade took place on a gold level and over short and long distances. Improvements in ship technology and cargo capabilities made trade and the transport of goods much easier, [4] [1]: 97 especially as Europe began to shift to a bulk economy.
Maritime trade goods of the Maya. The extensive trade networks of the Ancient Maya contributed largely to the success of their civilization spanning three millennia. Maya royal control and the wide distribution of foreign and domestic commodities for both population sustenance and social affluence are hallmarks of the Maya visible throughout much of the iconography found in the archaeological ...
The earliest sources of tin in the Early Bronze Age in the Near East are still unknown and the subject of much debate in archaeology. [10] [30] [31] [28] [8] [32] [42] Possibilities include minor now-depleted sources in the Near East, trade from Central Asia, [3] Sub-Saharan Africa, [30] Europe, or elsewhere.
The Hopewell tradition was not a single culture or society but a widely dispersed set of populations connected by a common network of trade routes. [1] At its greatest extent, the Hopewell exchange system ran from the northern shores of Lake Ontario south to the Crystal River Indian Mounds in modern-day Florida. Within this area, societies ...
A Hellenistic glass amphora excavated from Olbia, Sardinia, dated to the 2nd century BC. The ways in which glass was exchanged throughout ancient times is intimately related to its production and is a stepping stone to learning about the economies and interactions of ancient societies.
2017: "Textiles and Trade in South Asia during the Proto-historic and Early Historic Period." In Silk: Trade and Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity edited by Berit Hildebrandt. Oxbow Books, Oxford, Ancient Textiles Series (Vol. 29), ISBN 9781785702792.
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