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14 - Proto-globalisation and biotic exchange in the Old World

from IV - Complexity: Species Movements in the Holocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

Nicole Boivin
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Department of Archaeology
Nicole Boivin
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena
Rémy Crassard
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lyon
Michael Petraglia
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena
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Abstract

While globalisation is often viewed as a contemporary transformation and symptom of the modern world, textual, archaeological, genetic, and other sources increasingly demonstrate significant interconnectivity – and linked biological exchange – in the ancient world. Already by the Bronze Age, major commercial networks existed in several parts of the Old World, leading to the human-mediated exchange of domesticated crops, animals, and other biological species. Trade links increased in the Iron Age, resulting in longer-distance commercial and biological exchanges. Species translocations in this period diversified subsistence but also resulted in the spread of deleterious species such as the black rat and the plague. Biological exchange further intensified in the Medieval period, with the emergence of expanded and intensified trade networks, particularly in the Indian Ocean. These brought a vast number of new breeds and species to societies across the Old World. Species moved for a whole variety of reasons, from the mundane to the symbolic, and were both intentionally and unintentionally transported by people. While introduced species are often vilified today, it is clear that the creation of increasingly cosmopolitan assemblages of organisms across the Old World not only at times transformed ecologies in negative ways, but also enriched diets, improved human health, made challenging landscapes habitable, and in many cases increased biodiversity.

Keywords: Biological exchange, invasive species, novel ecosystems, species translocation, Silk Road, trade, Indian Ocean

Globalisation tends to be seen as a contemporary phenomenon. Those of us alive today have the sense of living in a world that is undergoing profound change, as new technologies enable the collapse of age-old barriers to communication, travel, and economic integration. Linked to the globalisation of technology, ideas, culture, and commodities is a globalisation of the biological world, with intensive connectivity facilitating the spread of species beyond their native range. Like globalisation, the transfer of such ‘invasive’ species is seen as a recent phenomenon, a dangerous and costly corollary of a seemingly over-connected modern world. ‘Bioinvasions’ are described as ‘pathogens of globalization’ (Bright 1999), and scientists talk about the potential risk of invasive species as a feature of ‘bioterrorism’ and the need for ‘biosecurity’ (Meyerson and Reaser 2003).

But, in reality, the idea that either globalisation or invasive species are new is profoundly inaccurate. While the speed of communication and transport, and the degree of economic integration today may be greatly increased, we live in a world that has long been ‘globalising’.

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From Prehistory to the Present
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