Robert L. Kelly

The Fifth Beginning

What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9780520293120
• ISBN-10: 0520293126
• Artikelnr.: 44750803

Autorenporträt

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 co-author of two popular textbooks, Archaeology and Archaeology: Down to Earth. He has conducted archaeological research throughout the western U.S. for more than 40 years.