Trade before Civilization

1. New perspectives on long-distance trade and social complexity Johan Ling, Richard J. Chacon, and Kristian Kristiansen; Part I. Exchange and Social Evolution: Forms of Trade in Egalitarian, Transegalitarian, and Chiefdom Societies: 2. Funnel beaker societies and long-distance trade Johannes Mueller; 3. Stonehenge: Long-distance exchange in Late Neolithic Britain c.3000-2450 BC Michael Parker Pearson; 4. Secret societies, rock art, and long-distance exchange in the Nordic Bronze Age: The supra-regional interaction hypothesis Johan Ling, Richard J. Chacon, and Yamilette Chacon; 5. Trade, exchange, and the workings of a "prestige" economy in contact-era New Guinea Paul Roscoe; Part II. The Role That Specific Institutions and Agents Played in Long-Distance Exchange: 6. Middle Bronze Age long-distance exchange: amber, early glass, and guest friendship, xenia Flemming Kaul; 7. Culture heroes, inalienable goods, and religious sodalities: long distance exchange in eastern North America at European contact David Dye; 8. Trade and Calusa complexity: achieving resilience in a changing environment William Marquardt; Part III. The Role of Political Economy and Elite Control in Long-Distance Exchange: 9. Lapita long-distance interactions in the Western Pacific: from prestige goods to prestige practices Matthew Spriggs; 10. Trade and the Hillfort chiefdoms of Bronze Age Ireland William O'Brien; 11. Long-distance exchange between the Eastern Mediterranean and Central and Northern Europe in the Bronze Age: social, political and religious background Rudiger Krause; 12. The Turquoise Corridor: Mesoamerican prestige technologies and social complexity in the Greater Southwest Ruben Mendoza; Part IV. Marxian and Postcolonial Approaches as Well as World System Theory in Relation to Gift Exchange, and Macro-Regional Exchange: 13. Accumulation and the articulation of modes of re-production Michael Rowlands; 14. Scandinavia and Europe in the Earliest Bronze Age: metals, trade, and change Helle Vandkilde; 15. Long-distance interaction in fourth-millennium BCE Eurasia Svend Hansen; 16. Following the breadcrumbs: epistemological and methodological issues in the interpretations of long-distance trade in the Caribbean Antonio Curet and Jose R. Oliver; Part V. Commentary on Contributions to This Volume: 17. Political economy perspectives in trade before and beyond civilizations Brian Hayden and Timothy Earle.