Globalization in Prehistory (eBook, PDF)

Contact, Exchange, and the 'People Without History'
Redaktion: Boivin, Nicole

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Globalization in Prehistory challenges traditional historical and archaeological discourse about the drivers of social and cultural connectivity in the ancient world. It presents archaeological case studies of emerging globalization from around the word, from the Mesolithic period, through the Bronze and Iron Ages, to more recent historical times. The volume focuses on those societies and communities that history has bypassed - nomads, pastoralists, fishers, foragers, pirates and traders, among others. It aims for a more complex understanding of the webs of connectivity that shaped communities living outside and beyond the urban, agrarian states that are the mainstay of books and courses on ancient civilizations and trade. Written by a team of international experts, the rich and variable case studies demonstrate the important role played by societies that were mobile and dispersed in the making of a more connected world long before the modern era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108648011
• Artikelnr.: 54183714

Inhaltsangabe

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.