Tag: Axial Age

There was no Axial “Age”

Dec 10, 2019

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by

lauraspinney

in Archaeology, Evolution, History, Journalism, Psychology

IT’S an idea that has been influential for more than 200 years: around the middle of the first millennium BC, humanity passed through a psychological watershed and became modern. This ‘Axial Age’ transformed an archaic world of divine rulers, slavery and human sacrifice into a more enlightened era that valued social justice, family values and…