Extent Of Trade

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
McNett, Charles W., Jr.A cross-cultural method for predicting nonmaterial traits in archeology
Gouldner, Alvin W.Notes on technology and the moral order

Associated Hypotheses (2)

Main AuthorHypothesis
McNett, Charles W., Jr."Community pattern (archaeologically defined) . . . can help predict [these] sociocultural traits: communal or private real estate, shared or hoarded goods, property at death destroyed or inherited, craftsmen, extent of trade, taxes, coercive power, kin-based community or larger, law, political hierarchy, army, religion or magic, ethical supernatural, complex supernatural, spirits or gods, shamans or priests, religious hierarchy, individual or common ritual, group ceremony frequency, simple...
Gouldner, Alvin W.Societies with a high level of technology should have a written language, a high level of trade, and hereditary castes and classes, and should correlate with the Hobhouse, Wheeler and Ginsberg classification of the stages of economic culture (28, 29, 30)

Associated OCMs

  1. exchange and transfers
  2. internal trade
  3. external trade