Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : perspectives on trade and exchange / Carolyn D. Dillian and Carolyn L. White -- Long-distance exchange of obsidian in the mid-Atlantic United States / Carolyn D. Dillian, Charles A. Bello, and M. Steven Shackley -- Ulua marble vases abroad : contextualizing social netwroks between the Maya world and lower Central America / Christina Luke -- Exotic goods, Chivay obsidian, and sociopolitical change in the south-central Andes / Nicholas Tripcevich -- The supply of stone to the city of Rome : a case study of the transport of Anician building stone and millstone from the Santa Trinità quarry (Orvieto) / Myles McCallum -- Interaction and exchange across the transition to pastoralism, Lake Turkana, Kenya / Emmanuel Ndiema, Carolyn D. Dillian, and David R. Braun -- "Beholden to foreign countries" : trade and clothing in Portsmouth, New Hampshire / Carolyn L. White -- The precarious "middle ground" : exchange and the reconfiguration of social identity in the Hawaiian kingdom / James M. Bayman -- Foreign objects with domestic meanings : the Feast of Lanterns and the Point Alones village / Bryn Williams -- What if the local is exotic and the imported mundane? : measuring ceramic exchanges in Mormon Utah / Timothy James Scarlett -- When the foreign is not exotic : ceramics at Colorado's WWII Japanese internment camp / Stephanie A. Skiles and Bonnie J. Clark -- The exotic in daily life : trade and exchange in historical archaeology / Diana DiPaolo Loren -- Exchange systems in prehistory / Timothy Earle.