Mixed Harvest: Scenes From The Human Past Hardcover

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Rob Swigart

In unforgettable stories of the human journey, a combination of storytelling and dialog underscore an excavation into the deep past of human development and its consequences. Through a first encounter between a Neanderthal woman and the Modern Human she called Traveler, to the emergence and destruction of the world's first cities, Mixed Harvest tells the tale of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged. Rob Swigart's latest work humanizes the rapid transition to agriculture and pastoralism with a grounding in the archaeological record.

1789206111

9781789206111

English

Berghahn Books

03 Dec 2019

244

Rob Swigart, PhD (Comparative Literature) taught for 35 years at a university, published poetry in The Atlantic, Poetry, and other journals, eleven novels, and co-authored a business book while working as a research affiliate with the Institute for the Future. Swigart was a founding board member of the Electronic Literature Organization before switching from future to past with two archaeology textbook novels, Xibalba Gate: A Novel of the Classic Maya, and Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic while a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Archaeology Center.

"Mixed Harvest is an unexpected take on human origins and early human societies, blending deftly written short stories with brief nonfiction segments... Readers will leave with a strong emotional grounding in the anthropological and archaeological record, and a large number of informational and thematic touchpoints for understanding this history." Joey Eschrich, Arizona State University