The Essay: 1: Cows and Shells

It Talks: Series exploring key developments in the history of money. Prof Keith Hart explores the early examples of money as part of an economy of living persons and things. He focuses on how, after 9,000 BC, when cows were first domesticated, they became units of exchange. The idea of money was born and cows became units of exchange. Even today, in certain parts of Africa, certain commodities are still priced in cows