Publication Date:
2011-02-02
Description:
The anthropologist Johannes Fabian once famously remarked that it is difficult to talk about time, and consequently we are given to leaving time to philosophers to ponder and play with as a topic worthy of learned debate (1). However, as the archaeologists Timothy Rieth and Terry Hunt have observed, “a well-established chronology provides the foundation for addressing broader research questions including the evolution of resource use, agricultural strategies, competition and interaction, social complexity, and human-induced environmental impacts” (2).In PNAS (3), Hunt joins his colleagues Wilmshurst, Lipo, and Anderson in showing us what a well-grounded radiocarbon chronology for the human colonization...
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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