Drawing on rich ethnographic data as well as archaeological evidence, The Boundaries of Ancient Trade by archaeologist Helina Woldekiros in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis challenges long-standing conceptions of highly centralized sociopolitical and economic organization and trade along the Afar salt trail: one of the last economically significant caravan-based trade routes in the world.
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Helina Woldekiros, assistant professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, helped launch the database, which aims to make under-cited work more accessible to scholars, students and the public.