World history is often framed in terms of flows of people and migration: humans coming ‘out of Africa,” the spread of farmers in the Holocene, Phoenician and Greek diasporas over the ancient Mediterranean, the colonization of the world by Europeans from the 16th century onwards. Together with his Exeter colleague Dr. Martin Pitts, Professor Miguel John Versluys wrote a manifesto in which they argue that world history is also about the flows of objects and proposes the concept of ‘objectscapes’ to illuminate the impacts of objects on (past) societies.
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Source: Phys.org