Globalizations and the Ancient World

Jennings, Justin

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“…Some authors (e.g. Jennings, 2012), have connected globalization with complex societies and early states. However, the evidence from Central Asia, as with the Indian Ocean (Boivin et al, 2014; Fuller et al, 2011a), highlights the role of societies that were not complex in the conventional hierarchical proto-urban way, but small scale and mobile.…”

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Between China and South Asia: A Middle Asian corridor of crop dispersal and agricultural innovation in the Bronze Age

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The period from the late third millennium BC to the start of the first millennium AD witnesses the first steps towards food globalization in which a significant number of important crops and animals, independently domesticated within China, India, Africa and West Asia, traversed Central Asia greatly increasing Eurasian agricultural diversity. This paper utilizes an archaeobotanical database (AsCAD), to explore evidence for these crop translocations along southern and northern routes of interaction between east and west. To begin, crop translocations from the Near East across India and Central Asia are examined for wheat (Triticum aestivum) and barley (Hordeum vulgare) from the eighth to the second millennia BC when they reach China. The case of pulses and flax (Linum usitatissimum) that only complete this journey in Han times (206 BC–AD 220), often never fully adopted, is also addressed. The discussion then turns to the Chinese millets, Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica, peaches (Amygdalus persica) and apricots (Armeniaca vulgaris), tracing their movement from the fifth millennium to the second millennium BC when the Panicum miliaceum reaches Europe and Setaria italica Northern India, with peaches and apricots present in Kashmir and Swat. Finally, the translocation of japonica rice from China to India that gave rise to indica rice is considered, possibly dating to the second millennium BC. The routes these crops travelled include those to the north via the Inner Asia Mountain Corridor, across Middle Asia, where there is good evidence for wheat, barley and the Chinese millets. The case for japonica rice, apricots and peaches is less clear, and the northern route is contrasted with that through northeast India, Tibet and west China. Not all these journeys were synchronous, and this paper highlights the selective long-distance transport of crops as an alternative to demic-diffusion of farmers with a defined crop package.

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“…These kinds of flows get summed up in Justin Jennings's book Globalizations and the Ancient World (2010a), in which he argues that the phenomenon of “complex connectivity” that typifies contemporary globalization had analogs on a smaller scale in the ancient past, when the growth and urbanization of complex societies drew people, things, and ideas from huge regions into a core (examples are Uruk, Cahokia, and Wari). Although perhaps too hung up on the semantic quibble of what counts as globalization , the book directs attention to how particularly vigorous flows of information, goods, and people created chains of unexpected side effects.…”

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Explaining the Past in 2010

Arkush

2011

American Anthropologist

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In 2010, archaeologists investigated diverse, multilinear human histories and disagreed about what forces shaped these histories most powerfully. The varied new work covered in this review is organized into three broad themes. First, research on the relationship between people and environments included topics such as domestication and anthropogenic landscapes, social responses to environmental crisis, and adaptation. Second, archaeologists studying nonstate societies discussed the basis of inequality, the dynamics of early villages, kin organization (incl. "house societies"), lineage commemoration, social memory, and monumentality. A third body of literature concerned the complex interactions within, between, and around states, including colonial powers; here, archaeologists particularly emphasized the intersection of imperial or colonial processes with local actors. In all three themes, a focal interest concerns the extent to which local and regional histories were forged by conditions or by human actions and their chains of consequences. [archaeology, environment, inequality, archaic states, 2010 trends]

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“…For the Middle Woodland period, then, it is not enough to track local historical trajectories in Ohio, the Southeast, or one of the latter's many subregions; rather, we must tack back and forth between local, regional, and ''global'' scales of analysis. Following Cobb (2005) and Jennings (2011), I believe that there is much to be gained by building conceptual bridges across the perceived divide between the modern and premodern worlds. Though the Hopewell Interaction Sphere may not exhibit all of the hallmarks of ancient globalization (Jennings 2011), I think it is fair to say that Hopewell was a ''global'' phenomenon for Middle Woodland peoples, linking, to varying degrees, individuals and groups across much of their known world (see Cobb 2005 for a similar argument about the Mississippian phenomenon).…”

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Local and “Global” Perspectives on the Middle Woodland Southeast

Wright

2016

J Archaeol Res

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During the Middle Woodland period, from 200 BC to AD 600, south-eastern societies erected monuments, interacted widely, and produced some of the most striking material culture of the pre-Columbian era, but these developments are often overshadowed by the contemporaneous florescence of Hopewell culture in Ohio. I argue that the demonstrable material links between the Middle Woodland Southeast and Midwest demand that we cease to analyze these regional archaeological records in isolation and adopt multiscalar perspectives on the social fields that emerged from and impacted local Middle Woodland societies. In synthesizing recent research on Middle Woodland settlement, monumentality, interaction, and social organization, I make explicit comparisons between the Middle Woodland Southeast and Ohio Hopewell, revealing both commonalities and contrasts. New methodological approaches in the Southeast, including geophysical survey techniques, Bayesian chronological modeling, and high-resolution provenance analyses, promise to further elucidate site-specific histories and intersite connectivity. By implementing theoretical frameworks that simultaneously consider these local and global dimensions of Middle Woodland sociality, we may establish the southeastern Middle Woodland period as an archaeological context capable of elucidating the deep history of the Eastern Woodlands as well as long-standing issues surrounding middle-range societies.

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Globalizations and the Ancient World

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Between China and South Asia: A Middle Asian corridor of crop dispersal and agricultural innovation in the Bronze Age

Between China and South Asia: A Middle Asian corridor of crop dispersal and agricultural innovation in the Bronze Age

Explaining the Past in 2010

Local and “Global” Perspectives on the Middle Woodland Southeast

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