Humans have endured a lot On the course of our existence, they are undoubtedly explored much more than what is explored in the confines of a 300 -page book, but Lizzie Wade’s Apocalypse: how catastrophe transformed our world and can forge new futures It still paints a rather rich image of some of the most disastrous events in our history. Returning to the disappearance of the Neanderthals and through the various forces of collapse of civilization in the tens of thousands of years that followed: droughts of years, pests, colonialism, slavery), Wade examines the concept of the apocalypse through an archaeological lens, and uses all this to put our modern chisses in the perspective.
Despite the subject, it is not really a child or book of fatality. After all, humans are still close. As much as it is a story about death and destruction, it is also about human resilience.
