Highly recommend this erudite book on the deep history of the earth from the emergence of life 500 million years ago. A key message is that most mass extinctions were a result of climate change and we are now heading down that path. #climatechange, #deephistory, #planetearth

Everywhen: #Australia
and the language of Deep History – edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker and Jakelin Troy (UNSW Press)

“The concept of everywhen,” they explain, “unsettles the way historians and archaeologists have conventionally treated time — as a linear narrative that moves toward increasing progress and complexity.”

The volume looks back on that original attempt at translation by Stanner and others, but also renegotiates the terms of the conversation around Indigenous deep histories and conceptions of time.

“We take ‘deep history’ to include the histories that long precede modernity, the medieval era and the few thousand years generally known as ancient history”, McGrath and Rademaker explain in the book’s introduction.

https://theconversation.com/dates-add-nothing-to-our-culture-everywhen-explores-indigenous-deep-history-challenging-linear-colonial-narratives-199871

#history
#DeepHistory
#FirstNations

@clipperchip i mean, i get curious sometimes but i don't know that it would really be an improvement. If the meaning changes and you no longer agree i guess you could remove or edit your response.. But if #autodelete is set up as many instances seem to prefer, it will be gone before #deephistory even catches a whiff. To me #Communication seems best enjoyed fresh and live, allowed to evolve.

In the fediverse, I’m curious to find and learn from communities interested in philosophy, cosmology, astronomy, biology/culture and evolution, literature, and running.

Here come some hashtags, hope this helps me discover some interesting people and ideas.
#NewHere #philosophy #feminist #feminism #SexGender #cosmology #ecozoic #DeepTime #DeepHistory #bodytheory #running #climatejustice #climateart #decolonize #sport #teaching ❤️