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| − | Dating is how historians can identify how old an artifact is. Artifacts can be dated by millions of years such as they are in ''Bone from a Dry Sea''. "The numbers read 1.6, 1.8, 2.0, and so on up to 4.8. These must be Dr. Wessler's pigs, she thought, and the numbers would be millions of years" (40). Vinny discovers these as she is wandering around her dads camp in the morning, before anyone is awake. Dating artifacts and fossils can be done | + | Dating is how historians can identify how old an artifact is. Artifacts can be dated by millions of years such as they are in ''Bone from a Dry Sea''. "The numbers read 1.6, 1.8, 2.0, and so on up to 4.8. These must be Dr. Wessler's pigs, she thought, and the numbers would be millions of years" (40). Vinny discovers these as she is wandering around her dads camp in the morning, before anyone is awake. Dating artifacts and fossils can be done many ways such as potassium-argon dating, thermoluminescence, paleomagnetism, biochronology, and just simply knowing when certain species were alive and what species have what size and what type of bone they had. |
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6. Geographic Imagination
Geographic imagination is a person's own world view or their interpretation of the world that is demonstrated through the cultural landscape and affects their behavior towards others. It is the way people view social and spatial reality. Geographic imagination is portrayed in the book, A Bone from a Dry Sea when Vinny, one of the main characters, "felt as if the whole continent might be a single sleeping animal, with its own special odor." (40). Here, Vinny is talking about a foreign place to her, Africa, and how she sees the distinct landscape of the continent. This is how Vinny sees the reality around her. Her view of Africa and how she describes it's smell as " cold wet iron, plus an animal smell" (40) is how she perceives this specific place. Geographic imagination and how you interpret the world around you is unique to every individual.
Sources: Origins Manual page 21
A Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson page 40
http://jgieseking.org/understanding-the-geographical-imagination/
Photo: Earth
-Yukiko Chevray
7. Dating
Dating is how historians can identify how old an artifact is. Artifacts can be dated by millions of years such as they are in Bone from a Dry Sea. "The numbers read 1.6, 1.8, 2.0, and so on up to 4.8. These must be Dr. Wessler's pigs, she thought, and the numbers would be millions of years" (40). Vinny discovers these as she is wandering around her dads camp in the morning, before anyone is awake. Dating artifacts and fossils can be done many ways such as potassium-argon dating, thermoluminescence, paleomagnetism, biochronology, and just simply knowing when certain species were alive and what species have what size and what type of bone they had.
Sources used: http://humanorigins.si.edu/faq/how-do-scientists-know-age-fossils -Anna Childers
