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Bones, rocks and stars : the science of when things happened / Chris Turney.

Bones, rocks and stars : the science of when things happened / Chris Turney.
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ISBN 1403985995 (hbk.)
9781403985996 (hbk.)
Name Turney, Chris, 1973-
Title Bones, rocks and stars : the science of when things happened / Chris Turney.
Published New York : Macmillan, 2006.
Description xi, 182 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. The ever-changing calendar -- 2. A hero in a dark age -- 3. The forged cloth of Turin -- 4. The pyramids and the bear's groin -- 5. The volcano that shook Europe -- 6. The mandate from heaven -- 7. The coming of the ice -- 8. The lost worlds -- 9. And then there was one -- 10. The hole in the ground -- 11. Towards the limits of time -- Epilogue : time's up for creationism.
Summary "What is the Turin Shroud? When were the Pyramids built? Where are the branches on the human family tree? Why did the dinosaurs die out? How did the Earth take shape? With questions like these, says Chris Turney, time is of the essence. And understanding how we pinpoint the past, he cautions, is crucial to putting the present in perspective and planning for the future." "In eleven chapters, each focusing on a famous dating controversy (from the existence of King Arthur to the last Ice Age), Turney reveals the legwork behind the headlines. Drawing on years of professional experience, most recently with the celebrated "Hobbit" skeleton of Indonesia, Turney explains how written records, carbon, pollen, tree rings, constellations and DNA sequencing can help archaeologists, paleontologists and geologists to "tell the time". We ignore or misunderstand these techniques and their results at our peril, he concludes."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects Earth sciences
Time measurements
Archaeological dating
Radiocarbon dating
Luminescence
Geological time
Historical geology
Chronology, Historical
Earth (Planet) -- Age
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