Bones, Rocks and Stars. The Science of When Things Happen
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Author(s): C. Turney
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230551947
Format: softback
182pp
Price: £8.99
Review Date: 11 December 2007
Review: Fundamentally, we like to know how old things are. Here Chris Turney takes an entertaining look at time, and events in it – from the dating of the Shroud of Turin, to the pyramids, when dinosaurs died out. He explains how written records, carbon, pollen, tree rings, constellations and DNA can help archaeologists, paleontologists and geologists to ‘tell the time’. The hope is that by understanding the past we can put the present in context and plan for the future.