The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart (Slate) The 5-foot long Histomap. They link to an evolutionary one too, although one with just human evolution would be interesting. Why start history at 2,000 B.C.?
40 maps that explain the world (Washington Post)
I am still waiting for a book that would cover just H. sap's history, 200,000 years. I don't know what's taking'em so long... I mean, hey, it's us! :-)
ReplyDeleteHave you looked at Deep History? It's an interesting intellectual movement:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/arts/deep-history-takes-humanity-back-to-its-origins.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.amazon.com/Deep-History-Architecture-Past-Present/dp/0520274628
Interesting. Nice to see that Daniel Quinn hit this one way back: bull's eye! (Prehistory is kinda like prewater, huh, I am paraphrasing Ishmael).
ReplyDeleteBut if you note in the article, folks are still all over the map, from 50,000 ya to a couple of million...
Just sapiens please! It's time we knew our own story...