The age of everything : how science explores the past / Matthew Hedman
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Hedman, Matthew, 1974- (författare)
- ISBN 9780226322926 (cloth alk paper)
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2007
- Engelska 249 s.
- Relaterad länk:
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http://www.loc.gov/c... (Table of contents only)
Innehållsförteckning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- 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.
Ämnesord
- Archaeological dating (LCSH)
- Archaeology -- Technological innovations (LCSH)
- Radiocarbon dating (LCSH)
- Arkeologisk datering (sao)
- Archaeological dating (LCSH)
- Science -- History (LCSH)
- Geochronometry (LCSH)
- Earth -- Age (LCSH)
- Solar system -- Age (LCSH)
Klassifikation
- CC78 (LCC)
- 930.1 (DDC)
- J:dd (kssb/8)
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