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Shell money

Shell money is a medium of exchange similar to coin money and other forms of commodity money, and was once commonly used in many parts of the world. Shell money usually consisted of whole or partial sea shells, often worked into beads or otherwise shaped. The use of shells in trade began as direct commodity exchange, the shells having use-value as body…

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Shell money

Nodes110
Edges109
Triples80
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018182
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Shell money

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related to Africa · 28
Shell money → Achatina, Around, Barth, Benguella, Benin, Between, Bight, Bornu, By, European, Gando, German, Heinrich Barth, In, In Africa, In West Africa, Kano, Kingdom, Kongo, Kuka
related to Asia · 20
Shell money → BC, Central Asia, China, Chinese, Chu, In, Indian Ocean, Later, Mainland Southeast Asia, Monetaria, Qin, Shang, Shell, Starting, The, The Classical Chinese, Unlike, Warring States, Yunnan, Zhou
related to North America · 16
Shell money → Alaska, Algonquian, California, Dentalium, Indigenous, Iroquois, Iroquois Confederacy, Mercenaria, Native American, North America, On, Pacific Coast, Shinnecock, The, This, White
related to Further reading · 15
Shell money → Aboriginal Shell Money, Bibcode, II, III, June, March, Natural Sciences, Other Primitive Currencies, Pratt, Proceeding Davenport Academy, Robert, Shell-money, Stearns, The American Naturalist, XI
is a · 1
Shell money → medium of exchange similar to coin money and other forms of commodity money

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shell money shells used currency citation needed exchange beads cowry asia africa trade cowries east use coast cowrie value new

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Shell moneyis amedium of exchange similar to coin money and other forms of commodity money0.90text
Shell moneyrelated to AfricaIn Africa0.60section
Shell moneyrelated to AfricaThe0.60section
Shell moneyrelated to AfricaOlivella0.60section
Shell moneyrelated to AfricaLuanda Island0.60section
Shell moneyrelated to AfricaKingdom0.60section
Shell moneyrelated to AfricaKongo0.60section
Shell moneyrelated to AfricaThey0.60section
Shell moneyrelated to AfricaBenin0.60section
Shell moneyrelated to AfricaIn0.60section
Shell moneyrelated to AfricaAchatina0.60section
Shell moneyrelated to AfricaBenguella0.60section

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