Deep History :The Architecture of Past and Present

Publication subTitle :The Architecture of Past and Present

Author: Shryock > Andrew  

Publisher: University Of California Press‎

Publication year: 2011

E-ISBN: 9780520949669

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520270282

Subject: Q981.1 anthropogeny

Keyword: 世界史

Language: ENG

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Description

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 for readers interested in the present as in the past,brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written by leading experts in a variety of fields, it maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a new scale for understanding the human body, energy and ecosystems, language, food, kinship, migration, and more. Combining cutting-edge social and evolutionary theory with the latest discoveries about human genes, brains, and material culture, Deep History invites scholars and general readers alike to explore the dynamic of connectedness that spans all of human history.

With Timothy Earle, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Clive Gamble, April McMahon, John C. Mitani, Hendrik Poinar, Mary C. Stiner, and Thomas R. Trautmann

Chapter

2. Imagining the Human in Deep Time

PART TWO: FRAMES FOR HISTORY IN DEEP TIME

3. Body

4. Energy and Ecosystems

5. Language

PART THREE. SHARED SUBSTANCE

6. Food

7. Deep Kinship

PART FOUR. HUMAN EXPANSION

8. Migration

9. Goods

10. Scale

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