Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies.

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Section One: Theoretical and Methodological Overviews -- 1: Investigating Market Exchange in Ancient Societies: A Theoretical Review -- 2: Detecting Marketplace Exchange in Archaeology: A Methodological Review -- Section Two: Case Studies -- 3: The Rise and Demise of Marketplace Exchange among the Prehistoric Hohokam of Arizona -- 4: A Multiscalar Perspective on Market Exchange in the Classic-Period Valley of Oaxaca -- 5: Origins and Development of Mesoamerican Marketplaces: Evidence from South-Central Veracruz, Mexico -- 6: The Rise and Fall of Market Exchange: A Dynamic Approach to Ancient Maya Economy -- 7: Housing the Market: Swahili Merchants and Regional Marketing on the East African Coast, Seventh to Sixteenth Centuries AD -- 8: Regional and Local Market Systems in Aztec-Period Morelos -- Section Three: Comparative Contributions -- 9: Labor Taxes, Market Systems, and Urbanization in the Prehispanic Andes: A Comparative Perspective -- 10: Evaluating Causal Factors in Market Development in Premodern States: A Comparative Study, with Critical Comments on the History of Ideas about Markets -- 11: Finding the Mark in the Marketplace: The Organization, Development, and Archaeological Identification of Market Systems -- References Cited -- Index.