Author: James Parkinson
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Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Organic Remains of a Former World
Author: James Parkinson
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Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Publisher:
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Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Organic Remains of a Former World. An Examination of the Mineralized Remains of the Vegetables and Animals of the Antediluvian World
Author: James Parkinson
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Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Languages : en
Pages : 514
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The Literary Panorama, and National Register
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Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
Author: Michael B Schiffer
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 148321480X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 3 presents the progressive explorations in methods and theory in archeology. This book discusses the general cultural significance of cult archeology. Organized into nine chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the spectrum of professional reactions to cult archeology. This text then examines the applicability of evolutionary theory to archeology. Other chapters consider the fundamental principles of adaptation as applied to human behavior and review the state of application of adaptational approaches in archeology. This book discusses as well the convergence of evolutionary and ecological perspectives in anthropology that has given rise to a distinct concept of culture. The final chapter deals with obsidian dating as a chronometric method and explains the problems that limit its effectiveness. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists and anthropologists. Graduate students and archeology students will also find this book extremely useful.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 148321480X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 3 presents the progressive explorations in methods and theory in archeology. This book discusses the general cultural significance of cult archeology. Organized into nine chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the spectrum of professional reactions to cult archeology. This text then examines the applicability of evolutionary theory to archeology. Other chapters consider the fundamental principles of adaptation as applied to human behavior and review the state of application of adaptational approaches in archeology. This book discusses as well the convergence of evolutionary and ecological perspectives in anthropology that has given rise to a distinct concept of culture. The final chapter deals with obsidian dating as a chronometric method and explains the problems that limit its effectiveness. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists and anthropologists. Graduate students and archeology students will also find this book extremely useful.
A general account of the Hunterian museum, Glasgow
Author: John C. Laskey
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ...
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Library
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Category : Natural History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Category : Natural History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Bursting the Limits of Time
Author: Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226731146
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud did, Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to sketch this historicization of the natural world in the age of revolution. Addressing this intellectual revolution for the first time, Rudwick examines the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth's history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. Rooting his analysis in a detailed study of primary sources, Rudwick emphasizes the lasting importance of field- and museum-based research of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bursting the Limits of Time, the culmination of more than three decades of research, is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226731146
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud did, Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to sketch this historicization of the natural world in the age of revolution. Addressing this intellectual revolution for the first time, Rudwick examines the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth's history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. Rooting his analysis in a detailed study of primary sources, Rudwick emphasizes the lasting importance of field- and museum-based research of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bursting the Limits of Time, the culmination of more than three decades of research, is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science.
The Spirit of the Public Journals ...
Author: Stephen Jones
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Alasco
Author: Martin Archer Shee
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Catalogue of British, French, and American Books ... on the Arts and Sciences, History, Theology, and General Literature ...
Author: Wiley & Putnam, Firm, publishers, London
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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