Dar y recibir. Rastreando la necesidad de intercambio en las primeras sociedades

Abstract

The following study intends to reflect on the need for exchange in early societies of the past. Since its inception, the archaeology has provided ample testimony to the existence of these exchanges between individuals or groups from the early humans, but a large number of studies haven`t wondered why these exchanges existed, but that have been identified and studied from other perspectives. What we are proposing here is to deepen the why. On the one hand we can link this exchange of goods for survival of the individual and the group. The explanation becomes more complex if we link the strengthening of social bonds or territorial. On the other hand we could be facing a way of socialization of human beings.The unknowns are multiplied. But... what is really the reason for the existence of this exchange? If a group of people have at their disposal everything you need to keep, what pushes the exchange? Is this a necessary phenomenon? We can relate the subject with the luxury, ostentation, power ... When and where this need of a material differentiator was born? Why did you use that item and not another? How far can we trace these exchanges? Can be the need to share things innate to humans? Or by contrast, are we facing a learned trait, cultural? These are some of the issues which will turn our study, focusing on the study of past societies from an archaeological