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by tomjakubowski
970 days ago
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> Barter economy certainly existed What is the best evidence for this historically? Anthropologists strongly dispute this idea, and believe barter was mostly used for trade between total strangers (e.g. traders from outside your society or "economy") Graeber's Debt: the first 5000 years covers this topic |
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Mostly archeological. There are many burials that contain items that were clearly not locally sourced. In some cases, they had to be transported for thousands of kilometers.
And quite often this was done for non-functional items such as jewelry or dyes.