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Title: When Did People Start Using Money?
Post by: rangerrebew on June 22, 2017, 11:45:13 am

When Did People Start Using Money?
By Chapurukha Kusimba, American University | June 21, 2017 05:56am ET
 
 

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Sometimes you run across a grimy, tattered dollar bill that seems like it's been around since the beginning of time. Assuredly it hasn't, but the history of human beings using cash currency does go back a long time – 40,000 years.


https://www.livescience.com/59560-when-did-people-start-using-money.html
Scientists have tracked exchange and trade through the archaeological record, starting in Upper Paleolithic when groups of hunters traded for the best flint weapons and other tools. First, people bartered, making direct deals between two parties of desirable objects.

Title: Re: When Did People Start Using Money?
Post by: Just_Victor on June 22, 2017, 02:19:16 pm

I'm betting it was first a medium of exchange for sex.

Title: Re: When Did People Start Using Money?
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on June 22, 2017, 03:08:09 pm

Quote from: Just_Victor on June 22, 2017, 02:19:16 pm

I'm betting it was first a medium of exchange for sex.

http://www.zmescience.com/research/how-scientists-tught-monkeys-the-concept-of-money-not-long-after-the-first-prostitute-monkey-appeared/

Title: Re: When Did People Start Using Money?
Post by: Old Warrior in Exile on June 22, 2017, 03:30:47 pm

Quote from: Just_Victor on June 22, 2017, 02:19:16 pm

I'm betting it was first a medium of exchange for sex.

Anything that can be used in exchange for goods and services.

Sex can be a service and it's definitely good.