This chapter is a provocation to think less Globally and in a more Earthy fashion about the makings of History. What will it take to move from the globe as artifice in global history, a taken-for-granted signifier, to what lies beyond that sensibility, the Earth as a fissured, crusted, summited, atmospheric and terraqueous platform? I begin by linking the creation of the globe as cartographic model to the modern definitions of History as a discipline, then move to a discrete bit of Earth, the storied rendition of the fabulous island of Taprobane, in order to think beyond the map and model of both science and history, to the signs of the terrain of the past. Taprobane, now Sri Lanka, was and is a materially particular and evolving space which was prone to narrative and historical capture. I end with methodological reflections on current preoccupations in historical writing around environmental history, agricultural history, oceanic history, animal history, and the history of medicine and the extent to which they engage both the Global and the Earth as matter, while concluding with a retrospect on the concept of the Anthropocene, taking global historical practice towards a more materially attentive methodology.