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SUMMARY:Globalisation in Deep Time: Postdisciplinary Lesso
 ns from the ‘Palaeolithic’ - Dr Inanna Hamati-Atay
 a (University of Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:Historicising globalisation entails crossing chron
 ological thresholds—‘the present’\, ‘modernity’\, 
 ‘antiquity’\, etc.—that often operate as conceptua
 l or epistemological boundaries. The greatest and 
 most enduring has been the threshold of ‘history’ 
 itself\, beyond which the notions of society\, cul
 ture\, or civilisation apparently cease to be mean
 ingful analytical frameworks for understanding the
  condition of humanity as a social and natural spe
 cies. In this talk I make the case for a deep hist
 orical perspective on globalisation and argue that
  extending the chronology beyond the longue durée 
 to encompass so-called ‘prehistory’ does more than
  just illuminate other/older configurations of our
  common global condition. To do so I first show\, 
 using a standard definition of globalisation\, tha
 t humanity experienced its first truly ‘global age
 ’ during the period known as the ‘Palaeolithic’. F
 ocusing on the role of specific epistemic innovati
 ons and cultural practices in establishing and mai
 ntaining the structures and processes of connectiv
 ity\, exchange\, and integration characteristic of
  that period\, I then propose ‘cultural biogeograp
 hy’ as the most fruitful analytical framework to e
 xplain Palaeolithic globalisation\, understood as 
 the distinctive globality of a forager lifeway dep
 loyed in the Pleistocene’s uniquely challenging en
 vironmental conditions and the historically unique
  circumstances of planetary colonisation. In concl
 usion I argue that a deep-time perspective allows 
 us to understand and break down the great wall of 
 ‘history’ as a distinctively agrarian category\, t
 o illuminate the process of globalisation as funda
 mental to the nature of humanity qua cultural spec
 ies\, but also to draw on pre-Holocenic life and l
 essons for a better understanding and anticipation
  of the Anthropocenic future. 
LOCATION:Audit Room\, King’s College\, Cambridge
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