Bones, Rocks and Stars - C. Turney

Bones, Rocks and Stars

The Science of When Things Happened

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
188 Seiten
2006 | 2nd ed. 2006
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-8599-6 (ISBN)
42,75 inkl. MwSt
What is the Turin Shroud? When were the Pyramids built? 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.

CHRIS TURNEY is a British Geologist based at the University of Exeter. He did the radiocarbon dating on the 'Hobbit' fossil of Flores, Indonesia, that hit the headlines worldwide. He has published numerous scientific papers and magazine articles and done many media interviews thanks to his infectious enthusiasm for working out what happened when. In 2007, Chris was awarded The Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal for outstanding young Quaternary scientist for his pioneering research on past climate change and dating the past.

List of Figures and Tables List of Permissions and Figure Sources Acknowledgements Introduction The Ever-changing Calendar A hero in a dark age The Forged Cloth of Turin The Pyramids and the Bear's Groin The Volcano that Shook Europe The Mandate from Heaven The Coming of the Ice The Lost Worlds And Then there was One The Hole in the Ground Towards the Limits of Time Epilogue: Time's up for Creationism Further Reading Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.6.2006
Reihe/Serie Macmillan Science
Zusatzinfo XI, 188 p.
Verlagsort Gordonsville
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4039-8599-5 / 1403985995
ISBN-13 978-1-4039-8599-6 / 9781403985996
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