Globalization in prehistory : contact, exchange, and the "People without history"

Weitere Verfasser: Boivin, Nicole, 1970- Ph. D. , [HerausgeberIn]
Frachetti, Michael D. , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press,. September 2018.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (xviii, 343 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Online Zugang: Available online
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  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction. Archaeology and people without history /Nicole Boivin and Michael D. Frachetti; 1. What's the point? Globalization and the emergence of ceramic-using hunter-gatherers in Northern Eurasia /Peter Hommel; 2. Globalizing interactions in the Arabian neolithic and the 'Ubaid / Robert Carter; 3. Domestic dispersal, human agency and the connectivity in Island Southeast Asia during the Holocene / Tim Denham; 4. Bronze Age participation in a 'global' ecumene: mortuary practice and ideology across Inner Asia / Michael D. Frachetti and Elissa Bullion; 5. Prehistoric globalizing processes in the Tao River Valley, Gansu, China? / Yitzchak Jaffe and Rowan Flad; 6. Global networks and local agents in the Iron Age Eurasian steppe /Ursula Brosseder and Bryan K. Miller; 7. Nomads and caravan trade in the Syrian Desert /Eivind Heldaas Seland; 8. Invisible agents of Eastern trade: foregrounding Island Southeast Asian agency in pre-modern globalization /Tim Hoogervorst and Nicole Boivin; 9. From rural collectables to global commodities: copper from Oman and obsidian from Ethiopia /Ioana A. Dimitru and Michael J. Harrower; 10. The Tsodilo Hills and the Indian Ocean: small-scale wealth and emergent power in eighth-eleventh century Central-Southern Africa / Edwin N. Wilsen; 11. Christians and spices: hidden foundations and misrecognitions in European colonial expansion to South Asia / Kathleen D. Morrison; 12. Subsistence middlemen traders and pre-colonial globalization in Melanesia / Ian Lilley.