The Fifth Beginning: Six Million Years & The Future with Dr. Robert Kelly — WildFed Podcast #070
In this episode:
Dr. Robert Kelly | Archeologist and anthropologist
Podcast discussion:
Introducing Dr. Kelly
Romanticizing hunter-gatherer cultures
Do humans cause extinctions?
The atlatl
Human history through the framework of the Four Beginnings
How Dr. Kelly defines the Fifth Beginning
The last hunter-gatherers
Dr. Kelly's thoughts on our current political system, war and the population of humans on the planet
The most ideal Fifth Beginning and future world
How to find Dr. Kelly's work
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Wyoming PBS: Dr. Robert Kelly on "The Fifth Beginning"
Meet Dr. Robert Kelly
Robert L. Kelly is an internationally-known authority on the archaeology and ethnology of hunting and gathering societies. He has participated in research projects in western North America since 1973. He is a past-president of the Society for American Archaeology (2001- 2003), and past-editor (2015-2018) of the Society’s flagship journal, American Antiquity. He has authored over 100 articles, reviews, and books, including two archaeology textbooks, Archaeology, in its 7th edition, and Archaeology: Down to Earth, in its 5th edition, both co-authored with David Hurst Thomas; The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers (Cambridge University Press, 2013); The Foraging Spectrum (Smithsonian, 1995) and The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell us About Our Future (October, 2016; translated to Chinese, 2018). In 2017 he received a Senior Humboldt Research Award (Germany). He has served as a department head (9 years) and Director of the Frison Institute (3 years). He has lectured in many countries (inc. Great Britain, Finland, Norway, Germany, France, Argentina, China, Japan), and has received over $1.3 million in grant funding. With funding from the National Science Foundation he currently researches the use of radiocarbon dates as measures of prehistoric population, along with projects on the long-term effects of demography and climate in the Bighorn Mountains (through excavation of a deeply-stratified rockshelter), ice patch archaeology in the Rocky Mountains, and paleoindian mammoth hunting.