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EBay, Collectors, Flea Market & Antiques

Marthe48

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9. I was watching history documentaries all weekend

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 23, 2021, 11:13 AM

Feb 2021

Lots of reference to trading and trading routes thousands of year B.C. and how wealthy some of the traders became. I started wondering where getting stuff left off personal adornment and started going to boxes and chests and so on. Or did people just trade and then trade somebody else for something else endlessly?

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I wonder if early man collected things? [View all] Marthe48 Feb 2021 OP

We could probably figure it out by looking at modern nomadic people. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2021 #1

Exactly, when you move from place to place, on foot, you carry the minimum. Chainfire Feb 2021 #4

Definitely. We did not become a throwaway society untl the 1960s. Sneederbunk Feb 2021 #2

Throwaway society and collecting are two entirely different things. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2021 #7

Looks like my living room! Marthe48 Feb 2021 #8

Some of their things would have been curios from travels, PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2021 #10

Interesting question. I suspect that there have been studies done already on this, SWBTATTReg Feb 2021 #3

I was watching history documentaries all weekend Marthe48 Feb 2021 #9

How did you miss Paleolithic Barbie? LOL. Vinca Feb 2021 #5

Doubt there was much to collect until you had time to appreciate what was collectable. cachukis Feb 2021 #6