Introduction. Archaeology and people without history Nicole Boivin and Michael D. Frachetti; 1. What's the point? Globalization and the emergence of ceramic-using hunter-gatherers in Northern Eurasia Peter Hommel; 2. Globalizing interactions in the Arabian neolithic and the 'Ubaid Robert Carter; 3. Domestic dispersal, human agency and the connectivity in Island Southeast Asia during the Holocene Tim Denham; 4. Bronze Age participation in a 'global' ecumene: mortuary practice and ideology across Inner Asia Michael D. Frachetti and Elissa Bullion; 5. Prehistoric globalizing processes in the Tao River Valley, Gansu, China? Yitzchak Jaffe and Rowan Flad; 6. Global networks and local agents in the Iron Age Eurasian steppe Ursula Brosseder and Bryan K. Miller; 7. Nomads and caravan trade in the Syrian Desert Eivind Heldaas Seland; 8. Invisible agents of Eastern trade: foregrounding Island Southeast Asian agency in pre-modern globalization Tim Hoogervorst and Nicole Boivin; 9. From rural collectables to global commodities: copper from Oman and obsidian from Ethiopia Ioana A. Dimitru and Michael J. Harrower; 10. The Tsodilo Hills and the Indian Ocean: small-scale wealth and emergent power in eighth-eleventh century Central-Southern Africa Edwin N. Wilsen; 11. Christians and spices: hidden foundations and misrecognitions in European colonial expansion to South Asia Kathleen D. Morrison; 12. Subsistence middlemen traders and pre-colonial globalization in Melanesia Ian Lilley.