Deep History

Harvard FAS

Who are we, how did we get here... and how far back in time do we have to go to start asking the question?When does history begin? To judge by the typical history textbook, the answer is straightforward: six thousand years ago. So what about the tens of thousands of years of human existence described by archaeology and related disciplines? Is that history too? This introduction to human history offers a framework for joining the entirety of the human past, from the long ago to the present…