CLST 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Syphilis, Ancient Dna, Malaria
6 Sep 2016
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Written records of trade and exchange, if available (letters, contracts, inventories of goods, indirect references in literary works ) Seals, trademarks and other, especially if on the traded objects themselves. Distribution maps of objects of known origin, also including quantity, as evidence for the pattern of their distribution. Direct access: the user gets the product directly from its source. Down-the-line exchange: series of reciprocal and repeated exchanges. Freeland (middlemen) trading: independent traders supply the customers of markets distant from the source and make a profit. Emissary trading: a central organization based at the source organizes the trade and sends representatives to distant markets. There are lead ingots with stamps, mosaics with trade and sale of metal ingots. Study of the relationship between distance and quantity of traded material. In the case of down-the-line trading, the curve is typically exponential. Cargo of the ship included: copper from cyprus, tin ingots, terebinth resin in jars, glass ingots, logs of.
