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

by Dr. Robert L. Kelly

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0520303482
ISBN-13 9780520303485
Publisher University of California Press
Imprint University of California Press
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Feb 12th, 2019
Print length 168 Pages
Weight 244 grams
Dimensions 23.10 x 15.10 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification: General & world history Archaeology Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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“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, 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 network.   Kelly predicts that the emergent phenomena of this fifth beginning will include the end of war as a viable way to resolve disputes, the end of capitalism as we know it, the widespread shift toward world citizenship, and the rise of forms of cooperation that will end the near-sacred status of nation-states. It’s the end of life as we have known it. However, the author is cautiously optimistic: he dwells not on the coming chaos, but on humanity’s great potential.    

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