The Star-Crossed Stone - The Secret Life, Myths, and History of a Fascinating Fossil

Klappentext Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils! sea urchin fossils - or echinoids - have continually been among the most prized! from the Paleolithic era! when they decorated flint axes! to today! when paleobiologists study them for clues to the earth's history. The author takes the reader on a fossil hunt. Zusammenfassung Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils! sea urchin fossils - or echinoids - have continually been among the most prized! from the Paleolithic era! when they decorated flint axes! to today! when paleobiologists study them for clues to the earth's history. The author takes the reader on a fossil hunt.

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• Authors: Ken McNamara, Kenneth J Mcnamara, Kenneth J. Mcnamara, Kenneth J. (Western Australian Museum) McNamara, McNamara Kenneth J.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2010
• EAN: 9780226514697
• ISBN: 978-0-226-51469-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Palaeontology; SCIENCE / Paleontology, Palaeontology