Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of boxes
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Web resources for skulls and stone tools
- 1 The worlds of deep human history
- 2 The drivers of climate and environment: Terrae 0–2, 10Ma–50ka
- 3 The recent veneers of climate, environment and population: Terrae 3–5, 50ka to the present day
- 4 Walking and running down the tectonic trail: Terra 0, 10–3.3Ma, and Terra 1, 3.3–1.8Ma
- 5 Three strides across a bio-tidal world: Terra 2, 1.8Ma–50ka
- 6 Going beyond, keeping in touch: Terra 3, 50–4ka
- 7 The call of the north: Terra 3, 50–4ka
- 8 Eyes on the horizon: Terra 4, 4–1ka
- 9 The human reunion in retrospect: Terra 5, after 1400 AD
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Eyes on the horizon: Terra 4, 4–1ka
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of boxes
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Web resources for skulls and stone tools
- 1 The worlds of deep human history
- 2 The drivers of climate and environment: Terrae 0–2, 10Ma–50ka
- 3 The recent veneers of climate, environment and population: Terrae 3–5, 50ka to the present day
- 4 Walking and running down the tectonic trail: Terra 0, 10–3.3Ma, and Terra 1, 3.3–1.8Ma
- 5 Three strides across a bio-tidal world: Terra 2, 1.8Ma–50ka
- 6 Going beyond, keeping in touch: Terra 3, 50–4ka
- 7 The call of the north: Terra 3, 50–4ka
- 8 Eyes on the horizon: Terra 4, 4–1ka
- 9 The human reunion in retrospect: Terra 5, after 1400 AD
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I hate travelling and explorers.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1955Farming The World
Terra 4 is a world of seascapes. The globe is rapidly settled by purposeful voyages and island hopping that now reaches into all parts of the uninhabited oceans. The remote is turned into the local, and maritime neighbourhoods are created out of materials shared over great distances. The impact of these dispersals can be traced through the Pacific and across the Indian and Atlantic oceans (Figure 8.1).
Terra 4 is also a world of complex political landscapes. In conjunction with the settlement of seascapes, Terra 4 contains evidence from human biology, genetics, linguistics, texts and artefacts for repeated population displacement throughout the lands settled in Terra 3. These displacements have been the engine driving our interest in shallow history (Box 1.1, Table 2.3). They provide an understanding of the past that both supports and challenges current national identities and universal notions of humanity. These multifarious displacements are fuelled by ever-more complex societies extracting more from the land and growing larger in size (Table 3.8b).
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- Settling the EarthThe Archaeology of Deep Human History, pp. 279 - 309Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013