Introduction: Perspectives on Trade and Exchange

Dillian, Carolyn; White, Carolyn L.

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“…4 Finally, the exchange of food among individuals or populations can also mitigate uncertainty. 20,21 If the yield for a particular household or population is at least somewhat uncorrelated with its exchange partners, there is the potential that linking and transferring food between locations can allow variability across locations to smooth variability in productivity over time.…”

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“…In this manuscript we'll use a mathematical model to evaluate the efficacy and consequences of the last of these categories: food exchange. This strategy is documented across a broad range of human societies on multiple scales, [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] including the kind of longer-range exchange necessary for mitigating local environmental variability. For example, in the case of maize agriculture in Pueblo society in the American Southwest, there is physical evidence establishing that maize could have been exchanged on length scales of up to 100 km [30][31][32][33] among Pueblo SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY Variability in crop production from year to year is a fact of life.…”

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Stability Constrains How Populations Spread Risk in a Model of Food Exchange

O’Dwyer

2020

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Stability Constrains How Populations Spread Risk in a Model of Food Exchange

O’Dwyer

2020

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“…Traveling, networking for moving objects, people, and ideas have been key social interactive behaviors in human history (Clarkson et al 2017;Dillehay 2013;Dillian and White 2010;Hirth and Pillsbury 2013). In Sout America, it seems that since the early colonization of the continent people were linked to a broad network that directly and indirectly connected human groups from a wide range of dispersed ecosystems.…”

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From the Pacific to the Tropical Forests: Networks of Social Interaction in the Atacama Desert, Late in the Pleistocene

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Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena The social groups that initially inhabited the hyper arid core of the Atacama Desert of northern Chile during the late Pleistocene integrated a wide range of local, regional and supra regional goods and ideas for their social reproduction as suggested by the archaeological evidence contained in several open camps in Pampa del Tamarugal (PdT). Local resources for maintaining their everyday life, included stone raw material, wood, plant and animal fibers, game, and fresh water acquired within a radius of ∼30 km (ca. 1-2 days journey). At a regional scale, some goods were introduced from the Pacific coast (60-80 km to the west, ca. 3-4 days journey), including elongated rounded cobbles used as hammer stones in lithic production, and shells, especially from non-edible species of mollusks. From the Andes (ranging 80-150 km to the east, ca. 5-8 days of journey), they obtained camelid fiber, obsidian and a high-quality chalcedony, in addition to sharing knowledge on projectile point designs (Patapatane and Tuina type forms). Pieces of wood of a tropical forest tree species (Ceiba spp.) from the east Andean lowlands (600 km away, ca. 30 days of journey) were also brought to the PdT. While local goods were procured by the circulation of people within the PdT, the small number of foreign items would have been acquired through some sort of exchange networks that integrated dispersed local communities throughout several ecosystems. These networks may have been a key factor behind the success exhibited by these early huntergatherers in the hyper arid ecosystems of the Atacama Desert at the end of the Pleistocene. Different lines of archaeological evidence including open camps, workshop-quarries, lithic artifacts, archaeofaunal remains, plant and animal fibers and textiles, archaeobotanical remains, and paleoecological data show that people of the PdT managed a wide range of cultural items from the Pacific coast, the Andean highland and the tropical forest, that were integrated with resources

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“…For this purpose, archaeologists have regularly used petrographic and geochemical analyses for more than 40 years for characterising the geological provenance of raw materials and stone artefacts and for reconstructing patterns of exchange based on hard evidence [5][6][7] . Geochemical techniques have proven to be the most efficient and reliable way to fingerprint raw material sources and artefacts thereby providing reproducible and comparable results [8][9][10] . Furthermore, geochemical data are quantitative and can therefore be examined with statistical methods 11,12 or by using, for example, well-known principles of petrogenesis and mantle source evolution.…”

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Pofatu, a curated and open-access database for geochemical sourcing of archaeological materials

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Compositional analyses have long been used to determine the geological sources of artefacts. Geochemical "fingerprinting" of artefacts and sources is the most effective way to reconstruct strategies of raw material and artefact procurement, exchange or interaction systems, and mobility patterns during prehistory. The efficacy and popularity of geochemical sourcing has led to many projects using various analytical techniques to produce independent datasets. In order to facilitate access to this growing body of data and to promote comparability and reproducibility in provenance studies, we designed Pofatu, the first online and open-access database to present geochemical compositions and contextual information for archaeological sources and artefacts in a form that can be readily accessed by the scientific community. This relational database currently contains 7759 individual samples from archaeological sites and geological sources across the Pacific Islands. Each sample is comprehensively documented and includes elemental and isotopic compositions, detailed archaeological provenance, and supporting analytical metadata, such as sampling processes, analytical procedures, and quality control.

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Introduction: Perspectives on Trade and Exchange

Cited by 20 publications

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Stability Constrains How Populations Spread Risk in a Model of Food Exchange

Stability Constrains How Populations Spread Risk in a Model of Food Exchange

From the Pacific to the Tropical Forests: Networks of Social Interaction in the Atacama Desert, Late in the Pleistocene

Pofatu, a curated and open-access database for geochemical sourcing of archaeological materials

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