onlooker wrote:Seems this link backs up my position
https://www.mint.com/barter-system-hist ... nd-present
onlooker wrote:is this person right?
radon1 wrote:onlooker wrote:is this person right?
This person tends to be right. Various reciprocal exchanges did exist, but they were used as means of showing gratitude or respect rather than means of trading goods.
yellowcanoe wrote:The North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company which operated the fur trade over much of what is now Canada and some of the northern states was an entirely barter based business. Natives would bring their furs to a trading post and trade them for manufactured goods such as guns, traps, metal pots, tools, etc.
Pops wrote:Prehistoric sites include objects found hundreds of miles from their source, obsidian, shells/coral, distinct stone tools, baskets, pottery. Fair evidence of long distance trade
radon1 wrote:Pops wrote:Prehistoric sites include objects found hundreds of miles from their source, obsidian, shells/coral, distinct stone tools, baskets, pottery. Fair evidence of long distance trade
It could be plunder or tribute collection. Even if it was trade, nothing warrants that this was barter.
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