Finding Time for the Old Stone Age: A History of Palaeolithic Archaeology and Quaternary Geology in Britain, 1860-1960

by Anne O'Connor

Finding Time for the Old Stone Age explores a century of colorful debate over the age of our earliest ancestors. In the mid nineteenth century curious stone implements were found alongside the bones of extinct animals. Humans were evidently more ancient than had been supposed--but just how old were they? There were several clocks for Stone-Age (or Palaeolithic) time, and it would prove difficult to synchronize them. Conflicting timescales were drawn...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199215472
• ISBN13: 9780199215478
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"