Trade and Exchange: Archaeological Studies from History and Prehistory

236 Pages·2010·7.13 MB·English

by  Carolyn D. Dillian

Trade and Exchange
Carolyn D. Dillian Carolyn L. White
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Editors
Trade and Exchange
Archaeological Studies from History
and Prehistory
Editors
Carolyn D. Dillian Carolyn L. White
Princeton University University of Nevada - Reno
Princeton, NJ Reno, NV
USA USA
[email protected] [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-1071-4 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1072-1
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1072-1
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Cover illustrations: Clockwise from bottom: (Figure 12.1 from book) Venetian glass trade bead card, 19th
century, PM 63-5-40/7819. Image courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Harvard University; (Figure 3.4 from book) Ulua marble vase with two monkey handles, Santa Ana,
Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University.
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Contents
Part I Introduction
1 Introduction: Perspectives on Trade and Exchange .............................. 3
Carolyn D. Dillian and Carolyn L. White
Part II Prehistoric Exchange
2 Long-Distance Exchange of Obsidian in the mid-Atlantic
United States .............................................................................................. 17
Carolyn D. Dillian, Charles A. Bello, and M. Steven Shackley
3 Ulua Marble Vases Abroad: Contextualizing Social
Networks Between the Maya World and Lower
Central America ........................................................................................ 37
Christina Luke
4 Exotic Goods, Chivay Obsidian, and Sociopolitical
Change in the South-Central Andes ........................................................ 59
Nicholas Tripcevich
5 The Supply of Stone to the City of Rome: A Case Study
of the Transport of Anician Building Stone and Millstone
from the Santa Trinità Quarry (Orvieto) ................................................ 75
Myles McCallum
6 Interaction and Exchange Across the Transition
to Pastoralism, Lake Turkana, Kenya ..................................................... 95
Emmanuel Ndiema, Carolyn D. Dillian, and David R. Braun
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Part III Historic Exchange
7 “Beholden to Foreign Countries”: Trade and Clothing
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire ............................................................ 113
Carolyn L. White
8 The Precarious “Middle Ground”: Exchange
and the Reconfiguration of Social Identity
in the Hawaiian Kingdom ...................................................................... 129
James M. Bayman
9 Foreign Objects With Domestic Meanings: The Feast
of Lanterns and the Point Alones Village .............................................. 149
Bryn Williams
10 What if the Local is Exotic and the Imported Mundane?:
Measuring Ceramic Exchanges in Mormon Utah ............................... 165
Timothy James Scarlett
11 When the Foreign is not Exotic: Ceramics at Colorado’s
WWII Japanese Internment Camp ....................................................... 179
Stephanie A. Skiles and Bonnie J. Clark
Part IV Discussion
12 The Exotic in Daily Life: Trade and Exchange in Historical
Archaeology ............................................................................................. 195
Diana DiPaolo Loren
13 Exchange Systems in Prehistory ............................................................ 205
Timothy Earle
Index ................................................................................................................. 219
Contributors
James M. Bayman
University of Hawai‘i - Mānoa, Mānoa, HI, USA
Charles A. Bello
FEMA Region 3, Philadelphia, PA, USA
David R. Braun
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Bonnie J. Clark
University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
Carolyn D. Dillian
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Timothy Earle
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Diana DiPaolo Loren
Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Christina Luke
Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Myles McCallum
St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Emmanuel Ndiema
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Timothy James Scarlett
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
M. Steven Shackley
University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Stephanie A. Skiles
University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
Nicholas Tripcevich
University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Carolyn L. White
University of Nevada - Reno, Reno, NV, USA
Bryn Williams
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Part I
Introduction