LEADER 04193nam 22008895 450 001 9910798729703321 005 20230126214711.0 010 $a9780520966369$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a0520966368$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9780520293120 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520966369 035 $a(CKB)3710000000892346 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4700088 035 $a(DE-B1597)521174 035 $a(OCoLC)960276363 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520966369 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000892346 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Fifth Beginning $eWhat Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future /$fRobert L. Kelly 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (149 pages) $cmap 311 0 $a0-520-30348-2 311 0 $a0-520-29312-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. The End of the World as We Know It --$t2. How Archaeologists Think --$t3. Sticks and Stones: The Beginning of Technology --$t4. Beads and Stories: The Beginning of Culture --$t5. Bread and Beer: The Beginning of Agriculture --$t6. Kings and Chains: The Beginning of the State --$t7. Nothing Lasts Forever: The Fifth Beginning --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $a"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. 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