Economics with an Entrepreneurial Spirit: Early Bronze Trade with Late Predynastic Egypt

Economics link the late twentieth-century "global village" in ways we readily appreciate. Can the same be said about Egypt and southern Palestine during their earliest historical periods? Advances in archaeological study of exchange items and anthropological modeling of exchange now enable the flow of goods between the two regions to be traced. The network that emerges suggests the presence of "entrepreneurs" moving goods back and forth across the ancient landscape.