Abstract
Defined mostly by its material record, archaeology has had broad-brush economic concerns regarding the human past since its inception. Nevertheless, it was not until the last half century that an economic archaeology truly emerged with important, empirically grounded conceptual and methodological breakthroughs. Here, economic archaeology is broadly defined as the study of the relationships between past populations and their natural and cultural resources, thereby encompassing production, distribution, consumption, and stratification. Contemporary perspectives on these topics are reviewed and a multi-scalar agenda is advanced for the diachronic and comparative investigation of past economies through archaeological and related investigations.
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