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Evolution of Shell Bead Money in Central California: An Isotopic Approach.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Evolution of Shell Bead Money in Central California: An Isotopic Approach./
Author:	Burns, Gregory Robert.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	426 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-12A.
Subject:	Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13422435
ISBN:	9781392212264

Evolution of Shell Bead Money in Central California: An Isotopic Approach.
Burns, Gregory Robert.

Evolution of Shell Bead Money in Central California: An Isotopic Approach. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 426 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Ethnographic California is a rare example of general-purpose money use in a small-scale society that cannot be attributed to diffusion. This study proposes that the evolution of money in California was an adaptation to autonomous small groups living in circumscribed territories, high population densities, and environmental variability that presented conflicting cultural and environmental conditions that prevented essential material exchange between groups through mechanisms entailing reciprocity or debt. This study hypothesizes that the accumulation of social change and population growth during the Middle/Late Transition (930 - 685 BP) coincident with climate variability and conflict associated with the Medieval Climatic Anomaly (1000 - 700 BP) was the evolutionary environment for monetized exchange.To test this hypothesis, this study analyzes carbon and oxygen stable isotopes from Olivella beads from archaeological sites in Central California and surrounding regions spanning approximately 5000 years. Serial samples from shell growth lines allow the isotopic range of shell source environments to be reconstructed to determine the coastal source of shell. Initial use of Olivella shell beads as money was observed as an increase in source diversity in the Middle/Late transition as monetized exchange increased the degree of redistribution of beads between groups and the area of exchange network accessed by each site. Isotopic sourcing was also employed to elucidate the organization of Central California bead production. Adoption of shell bead money required overcoming a frequency-dependent coordination problem, since the benefits of money are not realized until a currency is widely accepted and available for use. Isotopic evidence suggests most beads used in Central California were manufactured at small, dispersed production centers from local shell sources.

ISBN: 9781392212264Subjects--Topical Terms:

558412
Archaeology.

Evolution of Shell Bead Money in Central California: An Isotopic Approach.
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