Radiocarbon Dating: Interpreting the Past

Description

Author: Bowman, Sheridan

Publisher: University of California Press

Pub Date: 1990

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears.  Two previous owners.  First previous owner’s name in ink on inside front cover.  Second previous owner’s name in ink on ffep/half-title page.  Upper front cover corner has two bends, interior approx. 1″, exterior approx. 3″.   Lower rear cover corner has an approx. 2″ bend.  All corners worn.

Notes: Textbook.  Basic introduction to using radiocarbon dating in measuring ages and dates.  Radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin showed that the fabric was medieval, not biblical, in age.  Get out your slide rules, boys and girls, this is gonna test your mathematical skills.