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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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“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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第五次开始是否会因着无人驾驶汽车、抢救细胞植入血液治病、亦或者《黑客帝国》中 芯片植入大脑等开始…。 但翻来覆去好像都是与科技有关。所以，好像今天的我们被科技局限住了。没有想过，历史上的的很多次巨变，其实和人类本身的关系网有关。 第一次 猿到人类（技术： 石器...
评分 评分当时是在《人民日报》上看到这本《第五次开始：600万年的人类历史如何预示我们的未来》，从考古学的角度去看人类史，倒也是别具一格，于是还在预售期就第一时间在中信的旗舰店买下了。过了没多久，就收到了一版一印的考古学家的人类史作品。在作者看来，技术、文化、农业、国家...
评分买书参考豆瓣评论前几位是很冒险的事情，贪图省力希望阅读一本短小精悍的所谓专家的科普书而获得真知更是一厢情愿。 这本书里，我没有看到一点点考古学方面的干货，内容简单到令人怀疑。不要说近年如《人类六万年》《进击的智人》这些内容充实的考古人类学的科普著作了，连一些...
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天呐英文版封面设计竟然这么好看
评分天呐英文版封面设计竟然这么好看
评分天呐英文版封面设计竟然这么好看
评分呜呜呜等我修完专业学分要继续上考古课
评分有趣的是 所有Homo Sapien一开始都是血腥荒蛮 弱肉强食的Hunter-gatherer 然而作者强调human nature却并不是这样暴力混乱的 anyway 总结这本书就是“climate change”leads to everything (agriculture>technology, population growth>culture and state)
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