Claudio Tuniz

The Bone Readers: Science and Politics in Human Origins Research

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Offers a summary of the questions and the minefield of academic politics that surround questioning anthropology's most cherished paradigms. This title is suitable for students in human origins or biological anthropology courses.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Gillespie, Richard / Jones, Cheryl

ISBN: 978-1-59874-475-0
EAN: 9781598744750
Produktnummer: 4989293
Verlag: Left Coast Pr Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.7 cm 371 g
Gewicht: 371

Über den Autor

Claudio Tuniz is a world-renowned expert in geochronology using particle accelerators. He is Assistant Director of UNESCO's International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, where he promotes the use of atomic and nuclear physics in palaeoanthropology. He was director of the accelerator dating center at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization and has published widely on Australian prehistory. Richard Gillespie built a radiocarbon laboratory at the University of Sydney before taking up research positions at Oxford University, the University of Arizona and the Australian National University. He is an authority on dating bones and shells, with wide fieldwork experience in Africa, North America and Australia. Cheryl Jones is a science journalist who for many years has covered developments in Australian prehistory for international and Australian media, including The Australian Financial Review, The Canberra Times and The Bulletin.