Beyond the Book

The papers below lay the initial scientific groundwork on which the major theoretical project of our book, Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe, is based. Notice that this book is written for a global audience, but simultaneously carries an advanced scholarly message

Over the last seven years we have built a strong new approach around teaching the content described in Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe (also see interview video under courses).

Talk by Paul and Joanne at the Spring 2011 Society for American Archaeology meetings in Sacramento, California. This talk reviews the archaeology of coercive technology in native North America and its relationship to the evolution of social complexity and revolutionary social change. As discussed in Chapter 12 of Death from a Distance, North American archaeology is one of the richest and most important sources of data to test any theory of history and our theory is extremely powerful in the pred

Paul and Joanne gave a lecture in the National Science Foundation funded series hosted by the Evolutionary Studies program at SUNY New Paltz on April 11, 2011.

A book very well worth reading. Morris is an excellent historian and a great story teller. He weaves the exploding body of empirical evidence about human history into an easily followed story line culminating in the emergence of the contemporary “world order.” However, as a theorist of history he has a long way to go.