prestige goods
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prestige
adjective[before noun]
uk/presˈtiːʒ/us/presˈtiːʒ/
causing admiration because of being connected with being rich ...
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In spatial terms, districts were informal clusters of villages within a loosely defined geographical area whose inhabitants practiced intermarriage and exchanged trade and prestige goods.
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Some of the valuables were prestige goods or luxury items.
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This power was reinforced by chiefly participation in exchange systems involving the production and exchange of prestige goods.
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This meant that there was steady pressure to maintain trade links in order to obtain cloth and other prestige goods in this cattleless region.
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This social inequality is also observed through the prestige goods deposited as grave offerings.
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These hollow earthenware sculptures are considered to be prestige goods because of their specialized manufacture and the way they describe images and attitudes of the caciques.
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Prestige goods were a fixed set of luxury items.
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The actual translation of tga is treasured or valuable and the term also refers collectively to prestige goods produced by women for ceremonial exchanges.
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There has been much speculation over the mysterious purpose of what are likely prestige goods.
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These baskets often held prestige goods of great status that were given to the king.
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