Deep history
Deep history is a term for the distant past of the human species.[1] As an intellectual discipline, deep history encourages scholars in anthropology, archaeology, primatology, genetics and linguistics to work together to write a common narrative about the beginnings of humans,[1] and to redress what they see as an imbalance among historians, who mostly concentrate on more recent periods.[2] Deep history forms the most recent part of Big History, and looks at the portion of deep time when humans existed, going further back than prehistory, mainly based on archaeology, usually ventures, and using a wider range of approaches.
Proponents of deep history argue for a definition of
A review of Smail's book by Steven Mithen, professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading, is sympathetic to some parts of his thesis, but says "Smail may not be as closely acquainted with the ongoing debates in prehistoric archaeology as he might be", and on Smail's critical description of historians: "I have to take Smail’s word for it that such historians still exist, as after more than a century of prehistoric archaeology they would be an astonishing throwback to another age".[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b PATRICIA COHEN, September 26, 2011, The New York Times, History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words, Accessed January 16, 2016
- ^ History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words
- ^ Daniel Lord Smail, On Deep History and the Brain University of California Press, 2008
- ; Review of book by: Daniel Lord Smail, On deep history and the brain published by Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2008, pp. xiv, 271, 978-0-520-25289-9, Accessed January 16, 2016
- ISBN 978-1-107-43243-7.)
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Further reading
- ISBN 9780715636589
- ISBN 9780520252899
- ISBN 9780199569700
- ISBN 9780520270282
- ISBN 9780195304763