As far as i know there’s no evidence for this. No historical economy which worked primarily on barter has been discovered.
As i understand it, Adam Smith suggested this was the case and it’s now given as rote learning in economics but that historians have never found conclusive proof that this is the case.
The wiki entry for barter has this:
“No ethnographic studies have shown that any present or past society has used barter without any other medium of exchange or measurement, and anthropologists have found no evidence that money emerged from barter.”
As far as i know there’s no evidence for this. No historical economy which worked primarily on barter has been discovered.
As i understand it, Adam Smith suggested this was the case and it’s now given as rote learning in economics but that historians have never found conclusive proof that this is the case.
The wiki entry for barter has this:
“No ethnographic studies have shown that any present or past society has used barter without any other medium of exchange or measurement, and anthropologists have found no evidence that money emerged from barter.”