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The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past

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Taking advantage of recent advances throughout the sciences, Matthew Hedman brings the distant past closer to us than it has ever been. Here, he shows how scientists have determined the age of everything from the colonization of the New World over 13,000 years ago to the origin of the universe nearly fourteen billion years ago. Hedman details, for example, how interdisciplinary studies of the Great Pyramids of Egypt can determine exactly when and how these incredible structures were built. He shows how the remains of humble ...

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The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past 2008, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226322933

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The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past 2007, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226322926

Hardcover