Prehistoric Times

  1. 1.Why Prehistory Is Hard
  2. 2.Relative Dating: Stratigraphy & the Law of Superposition
  3. 3.Absolute Dating I: Radiocarbon Dating
  4. 4.Absolute Dating II: Potassium-Argon & Other Radiometric Clocks
  5. 5.Dendrochronology, Ice Cores & the Power of Cross-Checking
  6. 6.The Fossil Record: What Preserves, and What's Missing (Taphonomy)
  7. 7.Tracing Human Origins: Fossils, Genes & Real Uncertainty
  8. 8.A Genuine Cautionary Tale: The Piltdown Man Hoax (1912–1953)
  9. 9.Genuinely Unresolved Puzzles: Homo floresiensis & the Limits of Classification
  10. 10.Capstone: Reading a Real Prehistoric Discovery Critically