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The book uses personal correspondence to illustrate the often-heated arguments—sometimes leading to physical altercations—as these pioneers fought to establish their theories.

To define the "Old Stone Age" as a distinct prehistoric period. John Lubbock (1865) To distinguish the "New Stone Age" from the earlier era. Go to product viewer dialog for this item.

Wine sellers, diamond merchants, clerks, and papermakers all proposed competing timescales. Finding Time for the Old Stone Age: A History o...

is a seminal work by Anne O'Connor that explores a century of intense intellectual and scientific debate (c. 1860–1960) regarding the true age of human ancestors. The Core Conflict: Synchronizing the Clocks

Studying the layers of the Earth and Quaternary deposits. The book uses personal correspondence to illustrate the

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 of Palaeolithic Archaeology and Quaternary Geology in Britain, 1860-1960 Go to product viewer dialog for this item

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: