Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present

by Daniel Smail, Andrew Shryock, Daniel Lord Smail

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520274628
• ISBN13: 9780520274624
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.7"