ABSTRACT
Western politicians and political writers assure us that technology is still the key the more connected societies are, according to a recent interview with Thomas Barnett of the US Naval War College, the less danger they pose to world peace. Ancient empires were the original globalizing forces along with the spread of the world's great religious traditions. So powerful were some of these institutions that they could forcefully establish languages of transaction, not today's globalization and informationalization through the medium of English. The suggestion that historical cultures, societies and people can only be considered in the context of their contemporaries and not as viewed in relation to moderns is not unique to this school, but it is in the application of mentalities that cognitive archaeologists have made their mark. Different aspects of Castell's monumental work whether they address cultural identities, both ancient and modern, trade networks and the development and dissemination of technology in the past or globalization in general.
