Trade & Exchange Settlement Archaeology Flashcards
1
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Reciprocity & Redistribution
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ant204 chapter 6 notes
2
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Tribe, Clans, Chiefdoms
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ant204 chapter 7 notes
3
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Market Exchange
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- central trading location
- social context for bargaining
4
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Archaeological Identification of Exchange
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- external exchange
- internal exchange
5
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External Exchange
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- easier to identify
- exotics: raw material, style, species outside natural distribution
6
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Internal Exchange
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- more difficult to identify
- distribution of products associated with a specific workshop
- weights and measures
- marketplaces
7
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Down-the-line Exchange Model
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a pattern of exchange practices where the recipient of a supply of goods keeps a proportion and passes the rest on (trades, sells, gives as gifts, etc.) to the next group who do the same
8
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Chemical Fingerprinting
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objects made from the same raw materials from the same sources may have similar chemistry
9
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Chemical Characterization
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- neutron activation analysis
- Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry
- X-Ray Diffraction
- petrography
