Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present
“Ranging across the disciplines, this truly collaborative team cuts through the constraints of our previous notions of historical understanding and points towards a fundamental new way of thinking about history.”—Lynn Hunt, author of Measuring Time, Making History
“In recent decades, history as a discipline has increasingly portrayed humans as an exception in the story of life, as though all other life-forms were part of nature but humans somehow were not, or not quite. This book issues a profound and timely challenge to that implicit assumption and argues for an integration of deep and recorded human pasts. The challenge is profound, because it is at once methodological and philosophical, and it is timely in the way it resonates with concerns about our growing ecological footprint on the planet. This collaborative enterprise will appeal to students of human pasts in a variety of disciplines.” —Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference “Leading scholars in deep history have been brought together from a variety of disciplines in this ambitious project. The result is constantly exciting. I read barely a page that didn’t cause me to reconsider how we might tell the human story.”—Martin Jones, University of Cambridge “In Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present, a multi-disciplinary team of historians, archeologists, paleontologists, primatologists, and anthropologists takes up the challenge of incorporating the past six million or so years into the record of human history. Combining open minds with scholarly rigor, the authors use linguistics and genetics, trails of bones, shells and crafted objects, dietary traditions, and kinship rules to follow our footloose species out of Africa and around the globe, along the way dismantling barriers between disciplines that have outlived their usefulness.” —Sarah B. Hrdy, author of Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection |
Contents
Introduction
|
3 |
Imagining the Human in Deep Time
|
15 |
The hand ax found at Amiens France
|
25 |
The mitochondrial Eve
|
33 |
A medieval genealogical tree
|
35 |
The Barnard model of history
|
47 |
The Mithen model of history
|
48 |
The Gamble model of history
|
49 |
Maternal chimpanzee brothers
|
169 |
Genealogical chart showing cross and parallel kin
|
175 |
Brother and baby sister northwest Madagascar 1989
|
184 |
Language
|
186 |
Migration
|
191 |
The pattern of hominin evolution
|
195 |
The three worlds of hominin migration
|
198 |
Migration routes out of Africa
|
205 |
Body
|
55 |
Our First Manlike Ancestor 1921
|
56 |
The process of scientific reconstruction
|
57 |
The Ebstorf mappa mundi
|
59 |
11
|
62 |
Energy and Ecosystems
|
78 |
Climatedriven environmental fluctuations and cultural and human fossil chronologies
|
87 |
August Schleichers language tree
|
106 |
NeighborNet for a selection of varieties of English
|
116 |
of an evolved language
|
122 |
Food
|
131 |
Deep Kinship
|
160 |
Group of wild female geladas
|
167 |
Human haplogroups
|
206 |
Goods
|
219 |
Chopines
|
228 |
Shell beads from the early Upper Paleolithic
|
231 |
Scale
|
242 |
The release from the Malthusian trap
|
243 |
The J curve of world population growth
|
244 |
The J curves of the Anthropocene
|
245 |
Percentages of prey biomass obtained by Paleolithic hunters from large and small animals
|
251 |
Notes
|
273 |
289 | |
Contributors
|
325 |
Other editions - View all
Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present Andrew Shryock,Daniel Lord Smail Limited preview - 2011 |
Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present Andrew Shryock,Daniel Lord Smail Limited preview - 2012 |
Common terms and phrases
Africa agriculture ancestors ancient animals anthropologists archaeological archaeologists argued behavior biface biological bones brain cannibalism chapter chiefdoms chimpanzees chronology communities comparative method complex cooking created cultural Darwin dating deep history developed diet dispersal domestication early ecological economies ecosystems emergence environment erectus Eurasia Europe European evidence evolution evolutionary example exchange expansion female foraging Gamble genealogy genetic genomic global groups historians hominin Homo erectus human body human history human kinship human migration human populations hunter-gatherers hunting imagined individuals interaction kinship terminologies language Lévi-Strauss linguistic living male material matrilineal meat metaphors method Middle Paleolithic migration million mirror neurons modern humans nature Neanderthals Neolithic Neolithic revolution networks objects organized paleoanthropologists patterns plants Pleistocene political primates primatologists production recent relations relationships relatives scale shared shift short chronology social species Stiner technologies tion tive trade tree Upper Paleolithic