The fifth beginning : : what six million years of human history can tell us about our future / / Robert L. Kelly.

"In The Fifth Beginning, 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, a...

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Place / Publishing House:Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2016]
2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (190 pages) :; map
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Table of Contents:
  • The end of the world as we know it
  • How archaeologists think
  • Sticks and stones : the beginning of technology
  • Beads and stories : the beginning of culture
  • Bread and beer : the beginning of agriculture
  • Kings and chains : the beginning of the state
  • Nothing lasts forever : the fifth beginning.