The Fifth Beginning
What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow. This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. 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 definitive, no-turning-back change for the organization of society. Kelly then looks ahead, giving us evidence for what he calls a fifth beginning, on…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-96636-9
- EAN: 9780520966369
- Produktnummer: 20669775
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 141 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'568 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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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