Deep Time in the South Pacific Scientific Voyaging and the Ancient/Primitive Analogy

Deep time is a surprisingly young concept, a product of modern geology and evocative popular science writing. In 1987 Stephen Jay Gould praised “deep time” as “a beautifully apt phrase,” paying tribute to John McPhee six years after McPhee coined the phrase in his bookBasin and Range(Gould 2). Gould...

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Published inMarking Time pp. 95 - 121
Main Author Heringman, Noah
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto University of Toronto Press 29.11.2017
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Animals
Anthropology
Archaeology
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Behavioral sciences
Biological sciences
Biology
Cultural history
Earth sciences
Empirical evidence
Empiricism
Engraving
Epistemology
Ethnography
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Historical methodology
Historical periods
Historiography
History
Humans
Mammals
Material culture
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Political science
Prehistoric periods
Prehistory
Primates
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Summary:Deep time is a surprisingly young concept, a product of modern geology and evocative popular science writing. In 1987 Stephen Jay Gould praised “deep time” as “a beautifully apt phrase,” paying tribute to John McPhee six years after McPhee coined the phrase in his bookBasin and Range(Gould 2). Gould and others have adopted McPhee’s expression along with his definition of deep time as a marker of the unbridgeable gap between geological and historical time scales, between the earth’s gradual changes over millions of years and the rapid changes occurring in even a century of human history. Gould shows
ISBN:1442644303
9781442644304
DOI:10.3138/9781442699595-007