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0000-0001-6545-3017
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Macquarie University
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Publisher: International Big History Association
Date: 2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 19-06-2015
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2006
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 21-12-2017
Abstract: Do human societies from around the world exhibit similarities in the way that they are structured and show commonalities in the ways that they have evolved? To address these long-standing questions, we constructed a database of historical and archaeological information from 30 regions around the world over the last 10,000 years. Our analyses revealed that characteristics, such as social scale, economy, features of governance, and information systems, show strong evolutionary relationships with each other and that complexity of a society across different world regions can be meaningfully measured using a single principal component of variation. Our findings highlight the power of the sciences and humanities working together to rigorously test hypotheses about general rules that may have shaped human history.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 09-04-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2019
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 08-2000
DOI: 10.2307/2658967
Publisher: International Big History Association
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 17-10-2011
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 06-11-2020
DOI: 10.1558/JCH.39395
Abstract: This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and its methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for a large s le of historical and archaeological polities. The s le is global in scope and covers the period from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Seshat allows scholars to capture dynamic processes and to test theories about the co-evolution (or not) of social scale and complexity, agriculture, warfare, religion, and any number of such Big Questions. Seshat is rapidly becoming a massive resource for innovative cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary research. Seshat is part of a growing trend to use comparative historical data on a large scale and contributes as such to a growing consilience between the humanities and social sciences. Seshat is underpinned by a robust and transparent workflow to ensure the ever growing dataset is of high quality.
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 14-06-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-09-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2004
DOI: 10.2307/1520452
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 12-2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 12-2002
DOI: 10.1086/376261
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 09-04-2015
Abstract: Volume 1 of The Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part I leading scholars outline the approaches, methods, and themes that have shaped and defined world history scholarship across the world and right up to the present day. Chapters examine the historiographical development of the field globally, periodization, ergence and convergence, belief and knowledge, technology and innovation, family, gender, anthropology, migration, and fire. Part II surveys the vast Paleolithic era, which laid the foundations for human history, and concentrates on the most recent phases of hominin evolution, the rise of Homo sapiens and the very earliest human societies through to the end of the last ice age. Anthropologists, archaeologists, historical linguists and historians examine climate and tools, language, and culture, as well as offering regional perspectives from across the world.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1353/HSP.0.0099
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 27-10-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 1994
DOI: 10.2307/2500349
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 09-2003
DOI: 10.1086/380280
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2004
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 06-10-2018
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 02-2002
DOI: 10.2307/2700233
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-11-2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 18-09-2012
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199235810.013.0008
Abstract: How can one best manage the unpredictable and rapidly evolving relationship between human beings and the biosphere? This question provides one of the great research agendas for the early twenty-first century. It is no longer enough to track human environmental impacts at the local or national level, a task taken up within the flourishing field of environmental history. This article explores how each thread in this complex story is woven throughout human history and how it covers the entire world. At its most ambitious, the new scholarly field of world environmental history aims at a comprehensive historical understanding of the complex and unstable patchwork of relations between humans and the biosphere. The discussion argues that current environmental issues have their roots in the very nature of the human species and history. The article also describes the Paleolithic era, the agrarian era, and the modern era.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2015
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2004
Publisher: Brill
Date: 31-01-2013
Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Date: 2014
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 1994
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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