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The age of everything : how science explores the past / Matthew Hedman.
LIBRA CC78 .H44 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hedman, Matthew, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeological dating.
- Archaeology--Technological innovations.
- Archaeology.
- Radiocarbon dating.
- Earth (Planet)--Age.
- Earth (Planet).
- Age.
- Solar system--Age.
- Solar system.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- History.
- Geochronometry.
- Physical Description:
- 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The calendars of the classic Maya
- Precession, polaris, and the age of the pyramids
- The physics of carbon-14
- Calibrating carbon-14 dates and the history of the air
- Carbon-14 and the peopling of the new world
- Potassium, argon, DNA, and walking upright
- Molecular dating and the many different types of mammals
- Meteorites and the age of the solar system
- Colors, brightness, and the age of stars
- Distances, redshifts, and the age of the universe
- Parameterizing the age of the universe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226322926
- 0226322920
- OCLC:
- 76937414
- Online:
- Publisher description
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