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I LANDFALL
1 Timelords and god-scientists
2 Heat and light
3 Mungo Lady gets date
4 Stairway to heaven
II EXTINCTION
5 The melee
6 Inside Geny's eggshell
7 Frank the Diprotodon
8 Silicon beasts
9 New World Order
10 Blast from the past
11 Bison
12 Cosmic impact
13 Cool science, hot politics
14 Extinction science
III ORIGINS
15 Gene wars
16 Roots
17 Hobbits
18 Neanderthal
19 'Vampire' project
20 Back to country
Epilogue
Bibliography
References
Index
PROFESSOR CLAUDIO TUNIZ is a world-renowned expert in geochronology using particle accelerators. He is Assistant Director of UNESCO's International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, where he promotes the use of atomic and nuclear physics in palaeoanthropology. He was director of the accelerator dating centre at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation and has published widely on Australian prehistory. RICHARD GILLESPIE built a radiocarbon laboratory at Sydney University before taking up research positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Arizona and the Australian National University. He is an authority on dating bones and shells, with wide fieldwork experience in Africa, North America and Australia.CHERYL JONES is a science journalist who for many years has covered developments in Australian prehistory for leading science journals, along with international and Australian media, including The Australian Financial Review, The Canberra Times, The Bulletin and The Australian. She has a BSc in chemistry from the University of NSW.
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