To understand the nature of interconnections between people in dispersed places, we must first consider by what means such groups maintain those connections. This is what underpins globalisation processes in a globalising world. Indeed, in modern discourse, globalisation is often regarded initially and predominantly as of an economic nature, from which other forms of connectivity develop, including socio-cultural ones. The foundations of the intensive and widespread interconnectivities we see developing over the Mediterranean Iron Age have their origins in the exchange of objects. This is an economy of both things and ideas, however, since the use of objects in new contexts may well differ from how such items were used in their context of origin. Understanding both their common appeal and transnationalised uses together enables us to consider globalisation in action.