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Trade and Exchange Carolyn D. Dillian Carolyn L. White ● 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 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009941296 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. 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. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) 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 v vi Contents 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 vii viii Contributors 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

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Long before the advent of the global economy, foreign goods were transported, traded, and exchanged through myriad means, over short and long distances. Archaeological tools for identifying foreign objects, such as provenance studies, stylistic analyses, and economic documentary sources reveal non-l
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