The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
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 definitive, no-turning-back change for the organization of society. Kelly then looks ahead, giving us evidence for what he calls a fifth beginning, one that started about AD 1500. Some might call it globalization, but the author places it in its larger context: a five-thousand-year arms race, capitalism's global reach, and the cultural effects of a worldwide communication netw…
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- ISBN: 978-0-520-30348-5
- EAN: 9780520303485
- Produktnummer: 29031373
- Verlag: Univ Of California Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D1.3 cm 243 g
- Gewicht: 243
Über den Autor
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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