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.