TY  - GEN
AU  - Derricourt, Robin
TI  - Five innovations that changed human history: transitions and impacts
SN  - 9781009523394
U1  - 303.483 DER 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Sociology & Anthropology
KW  - Social Change
KW  - Development of Science and Technology
KW  - Innovation
KW  - Taming Fire
KW  - Developing Writing
KW  - Inventing Printing
KW  - Communicating Wirelessly
KW  - Domesticating Horses
N1  - Includes Index and Notes
N2  - We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Considering these phenomena within the long span of human history, we might ask: which innovations brought about truly significant and long-lasting transformations? Drawing on both historical sources and archaeological discoveries, Robin Derricourt explores the origins and earliest development of five major achievements in our deep history, and their impacts on multiple aspects of human lives. The topics presented are the taming and control of fire, the domestication of the horse,and its later association with the wheeled vehicle, the invention of writing in early civilisations, the creation of the printing press and the printed book, and the revolution of wireless communication with the harnessing of radio waves. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Derricourt's survey of key innovations makes us consider what we mean by long-term change, and how the modern world fits into the human story.

Presents a narrative of five major innovations in human history  
Identifies the multiple impacts on society arising from a single innovation
Covers different examples across time and space, moving readers away from a presentist and Eurocentric model of history

https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/archaeology/archaeology-general-interest/five-innovations-changed-human-history-transitions-and-impacts?format=PB
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