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- ↑ History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words
- ↑ Daniel Lord Smail, On Deep History and the Brain University of California Press, 2008
- ↑ Stephen T Casper (reviewer); Med Hist. 2009 Apr; 53(2): 318–319; PMC 2668893; Book Reviews -- On deep history and the brain; Review of book by: Daniel Lord Smail, On deep history and the brain published by Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2008, pp. xiv, 271, 978-0-520-25289-9, Accessed January 16, 2016
- ↑ Guldi, Armitage, Jo, David (2014). The History Manifesto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-107-43243-7.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Steven Mithen, "When We Were Nicer", a review of On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord Smail, London Review of Books , Vol. 30 No. 2, 24 January 2008, pages 24-25