Meanings of primitive barter in English

We are still in the stage of primitive barter.

Under conditions of primitive barter, communities were so small that every producer was in immediate personal contact with every consumer.

Still this currency had served for business purposes, and it being gone, the community had to go back for the time to primitive barter.

Primitive barter did not rely on and did not require the written word, although barter continued even after the place of written language became secure.