Robert Kelly unabridged
Archaeologist Robert L. Kelly is the author of\xa0The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future. He looks at four world-changing inventions of humankind\xa0\u2013\xa0technology, culture, agriculture, and the state \u2013\xa0each of which contained the seeds of the next, and then looks at the archaeological record that our society is creating to hypothesize a fifth phase of human existence. And it's one that might make our present time look positively prehistoric!\nKelly is a brilliant thinker and his short, wonderfully written book offers the imagination of a better society that is grounded not just in hope but in the logic of archaeology.