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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Trade goods"”.
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An early conceptual design and feasibility analysis of a nuclear-powered cargo vessel
… resulted in the tremendous growth of worldwide trade. Much of this trade is carried out via the various waterways of the world. The bulk of these trade goods are transported by merchant ships that burn diesel fuel to propel them through the water. With the cost of crude oil rising to record …
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Households and Hegemony: An Analysis of Historic Creek Culture Change
… facilities, greater access to Euroamerican trade goods, a decrease in domestic structure size, and changes in settlement structure are shown to represent the desire of individual households to garner increased social and economic independence for themselves at the expense of existing …
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Visible communities : designing a socio-spatial map
… and empower communities to share knowledge, trade goods, and access medical services. Assisted by automatically annotated satellite maps, the community-driven mapping resulted in detailed spatial and social maps for four rural villages. With the collected data, we designed a novel …
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The Archaeology of Travel in Greater Nicoya (500 BC – AD 1250)
… rivers, these peoples voyaged for many hours to trade goods and maintain social and political ties with their neighbors. The range and frequency of these interactions within this region is demonstrated by geochemically sourced ceramic and obsidian artifacts. However, the travel routes along which …
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The Maritime Archaeology of West Africa in the Atlantic World: Investigations at Elmina, Ghana
… of Elmina and is characterized by a mass of trade goods, including brass and pewter basins, brass manillas, lead rolls, trade beads, pins, cowrie shells, as well as large iron cannons.</p> <p>I utilize a multi-scalar approach in this research, which allows me to take the shipwreck as the …
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Digital Geographies of Neoliberalised Nature and Conservation in Patagonia-Chile: Data, Maps, Platforms, and the Reconfiguration of ‘Natural’ and Conservation Spaces
… with each other; how we perceive places, how we trade goods, products and services; and even in how we implement systems of planning and governance of places. This 'digitalization of human life' has triggered the emergence of numerous conceptual, empirical, and methodological approaches that have …
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Foragers and trade at Little Muck Shelter, middle Limpopo Valley
Southern African trade has primarily been examined through farmer archaeological sequences. One reason for this approach is that trade opportunities along the East African coastline, and the subsequent appearance of trade wealth in the interior, are thought to have been a factor that prompted …
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Archaeology and Settlement Histories Along the Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970
… of these communities. The assemblage of European trade materials including ceramics, pipes, glass beads, and liquor bottles, and local materials like pottery, stone beads, and lithics from the sites are analyzed and compared. Although limited, this study provides the first local ceramic chronology …
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Archaeology And Settlement Histories Along The Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970
… of these communities. The assemblage of European trade materials including ceramics, pipes, glass beads, and liquor bottles, and local materials like pottery, stone beads, and lithics from the sites are analyzed and compared. Although limited, this study provides the first local ceramic chronology …
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An episode in United States foreign trade : silver and gold, Santa Fe and St. Louis (1820-1840)
… purpose of this study is to examine the overland trade with northern Mexico as international trade, to analyze its unique role in the economic development of both New Mexico and Missouri, and to evaluate the influence of Mexican gold and silver on the economic development of Missouri. The economic …
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Sorting out ceramics : correlating change in the technology of ceramic production with the chronology of 18th and early 19th century western BaTswana towns
… inter-group competition over land, access to trade goods and control of agricultural and exchange networks. The sociopolitical response to these political and environmental pressures was large- scale centralization, in which people moved from dispersed village homesteads into expansive …
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Essays on the Impact of Renegotiating Trade Agreements
… explores the impact of the renegotiation of trade agreements when there is a threat that trade barriers could increase. The thesis addresses the following questions: 1. What is the impact on firm exporting decisions of the trade policy uncertainty generated by the renegotiation of trade …
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HUSHGAH ADIISH THE BADLANDS LODGE: A HIDATSA CULTURAL HUB ON THE UPPER-MISSOURI RIVER IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
… 90 percent loss. A five-hundred-year monopoly on trade goods in the Upper-Missouri region that was held by Mandan and Hidatsa came crashing down, and they became dependent on U.S. government rations and annuities. For many historians, the history of the Mandan and Hidatsa ends in the 1840s. With …