• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: The Balance of Trade in Southwestern Asia in the Mid-Third Millennium B.C. [and Comments and Reply]
  • Beteiligte: Kohl, Philip L.; Bäck, Lucien R.; Gilman, Antonio; Hamlin, Christopher L.; Hayashi, Kensaku; Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C.; Nissen, Hans J.; Oates, Joan; Ono, Akira; Potts, Daniel; Sankalia, H. D.; Shaffer, Jim G.; Solheim, Wilhelm G.; Stark, Mary V.; Watkins, Trevor
  • Erschienen: University of Chicago Press, 1978
  • Erschienen in: Current Anthropology
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 1537-5382; 0011-3204
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  • Beschreibung: <p>Trade frequently is considered an important and distinct subsystem that is integrated within a prehistoric cultural system. This paper rejects this interpretation and attempts a structural analysis of a specific trading network that existed in southwestern Asia in the mid-3d millennium B.C. in order to uncover the motivational factors and contradictions operative in trading relationships. An ideal dichotomy between sparsely populated, resource-rich highland centers and densely settled lowland cities is proposed, and the evolutionary significance of the relationship that developed between these areas is discussed.</p>