Globalization in prehistory : contact, exchange, and the "People without History" / edited by Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Frachetti.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xviii, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108429801
  • 1108429807
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.3 23
LOC classification:
  • GN799.C45 G56 2018
Other classification:
  • SOC003000
Contents:
Introduction: Archaeology and the "people without history" / Nicole Boivin and Michael D. Frachetti -- What's the point?: Globalization and the emergence of ceramic-using hunter-gatherers in northern Eurasia / Peter Hommel -- Globalizing interactions in the Arabian Neolithic and the 'Ubaid / Robert Carter -- Domesticate dispersal, human agency and connectivity in island Southeast Asia during the Holocene / Tim Denham -- Bronze Age participation in a "global" ecumene: mortuary practice and ideology across Inner Asia / Michael D. Frachetti and Elissa Bullion -- Prehistoric globalizing processes in the Tao River Valley, Gansu, China? / Yitzchak Jaffe and Rowan Flad -- Global networks and local agents in the Iron Age Eurasian steppe / Ursula Brosseder and Bryan K. Miller -- Nomads and caravan trade in the Syrian Desert / Eivind Heldaas Seland -- Invisible agents of Eastern trade: foregrounding island Southeast Asian agency in pre-modern globalisation / Tim Hoogervorst and Nicole Boivin -- From rural collectables to global commodities: copper from Oman and obsidian from Ethiopia / Ioana A. Dimitru and Michael J. Harrower -- The Tsodilo Hills and the Indian Ocean: small-scale wealth and emergent power in eighth to eleventh-century Central-Southern Africa / Edwin N. Wilmsen -- Christians and spices: hidden foundations and misrecognitions in European colonial expansion to South Asia / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Subsistence middlemen traders and pre-colonial globalization in Melanesia / Ian Lilley.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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"The chapters in this volume emerged from presentations made in a session entitled 'Globalisation and the People without History' at the 2013 SAA conference in Honolulu, HI."--Page xvii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Archaeology and the "people without history" / Nicole Boivin and Michael D. Frachetti -- What's the point?: Globalization and the emergence of ceramic-using hunter-gatherers in northern Eurasia / Peter Hommel -- Globalizing interactions in the Arabian Neolithic and the 'Ubaid / Robert Carter -- Domesticate dispersal, human agency and connectivity in island Southeast Asia during the Holocene / Tim Denham -- Bronze Age participation in a "global" ecumene: mortuary practice and ideology across Inner Asia / Michael D. Frachetti and Elissa Bullion -- Prehistoric globalizing processes in the Tao River Valley, Gansu, China? / Yitzchak Jaffe and Rowan Flad -- Global networks and local agents in the Iron Age Eurasian steppe / Ursula Brosseder and Bryan K. Miller -- Nomads and caravan trade in the Syrian Desert / Eivind Heldaas Seland -- Invisible agents of Eastern trade: foregrounding island Southeast Asian agency in pre-modern globalisation / Tim Hoogervorst and Nicole Boivin -- From rural collectables to global commodities: copper from Oman and obsidian from Ethiopia / Ioana A. Dimitru and Michael J. Harrower -- The Tsodilo Hills and the Indian Ocean: small-scale wealth and emergent power in eighth to eleventh-century Central-Southern Africa / Edwin N. Wilmsen -- Christians and spices: hidden foundations and misrecognitions in European colonial expansion to South Asia / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Subsistence middlemen traders and pre-colonial globalization in Melanesia / Ian Lilley.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.