The Benefit of the Gift

Social Organization and Expanding Networks of Interaction in the Western Great Lakes Archaic
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-879621-43-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 217 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: International Monographs in Prehistory: Archaeological Series

Archaeological data from the Late Archaic (4000-2000 years ago) in the Western Great Lakes are analyzed to understand the production and movement of copper and lithic exchange materials. Also considered in this volume are access to and benefits from exchange networks, as well as social changes accompanying the development of extensive, continental scale, exchange systems of interaction in this period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hill, Mark Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Organization of this Volume

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Development of Intercommunity Interaction and Exchange Networks

Chapter 2. The Western Great Lakes: Landscapes and People of the Archaic

Chapter 3. Distribution of Resources and Populations: Understanding the Geography of the Late Archaic Lithic Resources

Chapter 4. The Development of Late Archaic Regional Systems

Chapter 5. Material Symbols and Social Effects of Exchange

Chapter 6. Copper Acquisition and Production at the Duck Lake Site and its Implications for Systems of Regional Exchange

Chapter 7. Tracing Exchange and Interaction: Using Lithic Sourcing and Chemical Composition of Copper to Identify Communities of Interaction

Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusions

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV

Appendix V

Appendix VI

Appendix VII

References Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Hill, Mark Andrew
Mark Andrew Hill is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Ball State University. He was formerly J Clayton Stephenson Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, and former Curator and Head of the division of Anthropology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.