The age of everything [electronic resource] : how science explores the past / Matthew Hedman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.Description: 249 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 930.1 22
- CC78 .H44 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.