Finding Time For The Old Stone Age: A History O... 100%
Wine sellers, diamond merchants, clerks, and papermakers all proposed competing timescales.
Studying the layers of the Earth and Quaternary deposits.
Analyzing the fossilized remains of ancient fauna.
Finding Time for the Old Stone Age: A History of Palaeolithic Archaeology and Quaternary Geology in Britain, 1860-1960
The book centers on the mid-19th-century discovery of stone implements found alongside the remains of extinct animals. These finds proved humans were far older than previously believed, but determining exactly how old required reconciling several "clocks":