Bones, Rocks and Stars (Pocket)
avChris Turney
ISBN: 9780230551947 - UTGIVEN: 2007-12What is the Turin Shroud? When were the Pyramids built? Where are the branches on the human family tree? Why did the dinosaurs die out? How did the Earth take shape? With questions like these, says Chris Turney, time is of the essence. And understanding how we pinpoint the past, he cautions, is cruc[...]
Environmental Archaeology (Häftad)
avChris Turney, Matthew Canti, Nick Branch
ISBN: 9780340808719 - UTGIVEN: 200504Environmental Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches outlines and assesses the various methods used to reconstruct and explain the past interaction between people and their environment. Emphasising the importance of a highly scientific approach to the subject, the book combines geoarchaeo[...]
1912 (Inbunden)
avChris Turney
ISBN: 9781582437897 - UTGIVEN: 201211"The South Pole discovered" trumpeted the front page of "The Daily Chronicle" on March 8, 1912, marking Roald Amundsen's triumph over the tragic Robert Scott. Yet behind all the headlines there was a much bigger story. Antarctica was awash with expeditions. In 1912, five separate teams representing [...]
1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica (Häftad)
avChris Turney
ISBN: 9781845952105 - UTGIVEN: 2013-09Curiosity about Antarctica was at fever pitch, and between 1910 and 1914 five teams of intrepid explorers embarked on the greatest race of the era, to travel beyond the edges of the known world and conquer this last great frontier. This title reveals why 1912 witnessed the dawn of a new age in our u[...]
1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica (Inbunden)
avChris Turney
ISBN: 9781847921741 - UTGIVEN: 2012091912 was an incredible year, marking the height of the Heroic Age of Exploration. Curiosity about Antarctica was at fever pitch, and between 1910 and 1914 five teams of intrepid explorers embarked on the greatest race of the era, to travel beyond the edges of the known world and conquer this last gr[...]
