What is globalization: how goods and people move across an ever-smaller world
We’ve been moving towards it ever since we first learned how to farm.
Tag: Trade
Ancient teeth confirm: people have been trading internationally for thousands of years
A banana can teach you much about history.
The price of ivory is up 1,000% since global ban on ivory trade, but is slowly decreasing
The authors studied where ivory is sold and for how much -- in a bid to nip poaching at the ...
The Vikings’ Bronze Age relied on imported metal, new study finds
Trade makes us all richer!
Our ships carry invasive species, not just trade — and it is rapidly getting worse
Your package has arrived sir, it seems to be a pair of socks. The zebra mussel is on the house.
Globalization is an ancient practice, new research reveals
Cooperation is the key to success!
Ivory trade made Greenland great, then barren again
Turns out a one-trick economy never lasts long.
Rats trade with each other and are surprisingly fair, research finds
Hey, kid! Psss, kid! Wanna buy some cheese?
Most shark fins and ray gills sold in Vancouver come from threatened, trade-banned species
We're literally eating the viability of tomorrow's oceans.
Around 4,500 years ago, Vietnamese stone-age traders traveled hundreds of kilometers to sell their wares
Unsurprisingly, they traded a lot of stone.
Otzi’s copper axe offers hints of ‘extensive trade networks’ in Italy 5,300 years ago
This would make it one of the earliest organized trade networks in the area.
Globalization offers us a huge choice of foodstuffs — but we’re not having it
Game theory doesn't apply to farming like it does to other areas of industry.
Israeli archaeologists uncover roman-period glass factory underpinning trade throughout the empire
Israel Antiques Authority (IAA) archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a 1,600 year-old complex of glass kilns in the Jezreel ...