Before revision: Deep history is a term for the distant past of the human species , "stretching back 50,000, 500,000, even 2.6 million years to the earliest humans" .PATRICIA COHEN, September 26, 2011, The New York Times, History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words, Accessed January 16, 2016 As an intellectual discipline, deep history encourages scholars in anthropology, archaeology, primatology, genetics and linguistics to work together to write a common narrative about the beginnings of humans, and to redress what they see as an imbalance among historians, who mostly concentrate on more recent periods.History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words Deep history forms the earlier part of Big History, and looks at the portion of deep time when humans existed, going further back than prehistory, mainly based on archaeology, usually ventures, and using a wider range of approaches.
After revision: Deep history is a term for the distant past of the human species .PATRICIA COHEN, September 26, 2011, The New York Times, History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words, Accessed January 16, 2016 As an intellectual discipline, deep history encourages scholars in anthropology, archaeology, primatology, genetics and linguistics to work together to write a common narrative about the beginnings of humans, and to redress what they see as an imbalance among historians, who mostly concentrate on more recent periods.History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words Deep history forms the earlier part of Big History, and looks at the portion of deep time when humans existed, going further back than prehistory, mainly based on archaeology, usually ventures, and using a wider range of approaches.