Incipient globalization?
Subtitle: long-distance contacts in the sixth century
By: edited by Anthea Harris.
Contributors: Harris, Anthea.
Series: BAR international series -- 1644; Reading medieval studies -- v. 32
Publisher: Archaeopress; British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd; British Archaeological Reports; Available from Hadrian Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781407300788
Subjects: Globalization -- History -- 6th century. -- Congresses.; Commerce -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "This volume comprises the publication of a one-day conference held at the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies) on 19th November 2005. The conference carried the same title as this volume..."--P. 1.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Anthea Harris; title: Globalizing late antiquity : models, metaphors and the realities of long-distance trade and diplomacy / Ken Dark; title: Using bracteates as evidence for long-distance contacts / Charlotte Behr; title: The importance of Byzantine and Sasanian glass into China during the fourth to sixth centuries / Mei Ling Chen; title: Menas ampullae : a case study of long-distance contacts / Susanne Bangert; title: Ethiopian Christian material culture : the international context. Aksum, the Mediterranean and the Syriac worlds in the fifth to seventh centuries / Niall FInneran; title: The limits of long-distance exchange : evidence from sixth-century Palaestina/Arabia / Kate da Costa; title: 'Byzantine' and 'oriental' imports in the Merovingian Empire from the second half of the fifth to the beginnings of the eighth century / Jörg Drauschke; title: Britain and China at opposite ends of the world? : archaeological methodology and long-distance contacts in the sixth century / Anthea Harris.