Lost worlds how humans tried, failed, succeeded, and built our world
"A new look at humanity's deep past to show us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by trial and error on a planetary scale. There's a familiar story about us humans: we went from hunting and gathering to farming, wandering bands to villages and cities, clans and chieftains to states an...
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New York :
Harper,
2026.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Unstable planet
- The world as it was
- The dawn of the holocene
- The Fertile Crescent and the birth of agriculture
- The many cradles of agriculture
- The end of the beginning
- Part 2: The long Neolithic
- Global Neolithics
- Massacres, mass graves, and the dark side of the Neolithic
- The hights of the late Neolithic
- Part 3: Civilization and its discontents
- Two murders at the dawn of history
- The first "civilizations"
- Language and migration from the Steppe to the Pacific
- Why the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge were only built once
- Part 4: Fall and rise, rise and fall
- A spate of falling civilizations
- Peaceful lives in the late Bronze Age
- War
- The Bronze Age collapse
- Epilogue.
