Deep history : the architecture of past and present

Deep history : the architecture of past and present / Andrew Shryock and Daniel Lord Smail ; with Timothy Earle [and others].

Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important...

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Main Author: Shryock, Andrew
Other Authors: Smail, Daniel Lord, Earle, Timothy K., 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Human evolution.
Social evolution.
Anthropology, Prehistoric.
World history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
HISTORY > World.
Anthropology, Prehistoric
Human evolution
Social evolution
World history
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Table of Contents:
  • Imagining the human in deep time / Andrew Shryock, Thomas R. Trautmann, and Clive Gamble
  • Body / Daniel Lord Smail and Andrew Shryock
  • Energy and ecosystems / Mary C. Stiner and Gillian Feeley-Harnik
  • Language / April McMahon, Thomas R. Trautmann, and Andrew Shryock
  • Food / Felipe Fernández-Armesto with Daniel Lord Smail
  • Deep kinship / Thomas R. Trautmann, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, and John C. Mitani
  • Migration / Timothy Earle and Clive Gamble with Hendrik Poinar
  • Goods / Daniel Lord Smail, Mary C. Stiner, and Timothy Earle
  • Scale / Mary C. Stiner [and others].

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