[onlooker]

Just having a bit of an argument with someone online about Barter. This person says that Zero evidence exists of Barter before money came to be. That seems to be ridiculous given that money is what eliminated the need for barter. Barter what the manner hunters gathers and other pre-money cultures engaged in trade and commerce? Am I right or is this person right?

[onlooker]

Seems this link backs up my position
https://www.mint.com/barter-system-hist ... nd-present

[JuanP]

"However, ethnographic studies have shown that no present or past society has used barter without any other medium of exchange or measurement, nor have anthropologists found evidence that money emerged from barter, instead finding that gift-giving (credit extended on a personal basis with an inter-personal balance maintained over the long term) was the most usual means of exchange of goods and services."
The answer would change with the person answering. I always assumed bartering and gifting were widespread, common practices in the past, but it appears that in the case of bartering I may have been more wrong than right.
Barter Wiki, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'S')eems this link backs up my position
https://www.mint.com/barter-system-hist ... nd-present

[jedrider]

Well, you meet a new tribe, and then: What are you going to use for money?

Of course, you are going to barter, and whether that predates money or not, is not really important.

Come to think of it, the world STILL functions on a bartering system! They call that the EXCHANGE RATE.

[radon1]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'i')s this person right?

[GHung]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('radon1', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'i')s this person right?

[yellowcanoe]

The North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company which operated the fur trade over much of what is now Canada and some of the northern states was an entirely barter based business. Natives would bring their furs to a trading post and trade them for manufactured goods such as guns, traps, metal pots, tools, etc. The fur trade operated in this way for well over 200 years. Nowadays a trapper will send their furs to an auction house to be sold and receive money as payment.

[radon1]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yellowcanoe', 'T')he North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company which operated the fur trade over much of what is now Canada and some of the northern states was an entirely barter based business. Natives would bring their furs to a trading post and trade them for manufactured goods such as guns, traps, metal pots, tools, etc.

[Pops]

Prehistoric sites include objects found hundreds of miles from their source, obsidian, shells/coral, distinct stone tools, baskets, pottery. Fair evidence of long distance trade

[radon1]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'P')rehistoric sites include objects found hundreds of miles from their source, obsidian, shells/coral, distinct stone tools, baskets, pottery. Fair evidence of long distance trade

[GHung]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('radon1', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'P')rehistoric sites include objects found hundreds of miles from their source, obsidian, shells/coral, distinct stone tools, baskets, pottery. Fair evidence of long distance trade