Before revision: According to Daniel Lord Smail, perhaps the most prominent advocate of Deep History, the concept of prehistory is recast as an arbitrary boundary that limits the longue durée perspective of historians, and which rests upon assumptions that history follows a teleological path beginning with the origins of civilization in Ancient Mesopotamia.Daniel Lord Smail, On Deep History and the Brain ( University of California Press, 2008 For example, Smail suggests that advances in disciplines such as neurobiology, neurophysiology and genetics mean that there are more possibilities for understanding the distant past, and offer opportunities to explain how events such as biological evolution, global environmental change, and patterns of the spread of disease have affected humanity today.Stephen T Casper (reviewer); Med Hist.
After revision: According to Daniel Lord Smail, perhaps the most prominent advocate of Deep History, the concept of prehistory is recast as an arbitrary boundary that limits the longue durée perspective of historians, and which rests upon assumptions that history follows a teleological path beginning with the origins of civilization in Ancient Mesopotamia.Daniel Lord Smail, On Deep History and the Brain University of California Press, 2008 For example, Smail suggests that advances in disciplines such as neurobiology, neurophysiology and genetics mean that there are more possibilities for understanding the distant past, and offer opportunities to explain how events such as biological evolution, global environmental change, and patterns of the spread of disease have affected humanity today.Stephen T Casper (reviewer); Med Hist.