The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future

Kelly, Robert L.

ISBN 10: 0520293126 ISBN 13: 9780520293120
Verlag: University of California Press, 2016
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I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow. This inscription in Tutankhamens tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archeologist Robert Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity. In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: the emergence of technology, culture, agriculture, and the state. In each example, the author examines the long-term processes that resulted in a definitiveno-turning-backchange for the organization of society. Kelly then looks ahead, giving us evidence for what he calls afifth beginning, one that began about AD 1500. Some might call it globalization, but the author places it in its larger context:a 5,000-year arms race, capitalisms global reach, and the cultural effects of a worldwide communication network.

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Robert L. Kelly is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He is a past president of the Society for American Archaeology, current editor of American Antiquity, author of The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers, and coauthor of two popular textbooks, Archaeology and Archaeology: Down to Earth. He has conducted archaeological research throughout the western United States for more than forty years.

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Titel: The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years ...
Verlag: University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: Hardcover
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