O... - Finding Time For The Old Stone Age: A History

O'Connor highlights that the history of this field was built not just by professors and museum keepers, but by a "colourful cast" of everyday professionals:

Before these debates, knowledge of the distant past was often limited to biblical chronologies, such as James Ussher’s 17th-century calculation that the Earth was created in 4004 BC. The work of these forgotten individuals eventually shifted the focus toward a scientific, evolutionary understanding of our human heritage. John Lubbock (1865) Finding Time for the Old Stone Age: A History o...

Studying the layers of the Earth and Quaternary deposits. O'Connor highlights that the history of this field

Analyzing the fossilized remains of ancient fauna. Finding Time for the Old Stone Age: A History o...