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 center at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization and has published widely on Australian prehistory. Richard Gillespie built a radiocarbon laboratory at the University of Sydney before taking up research positions at Oxford University, 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 international and Australian media, including The Australian Financial Review, The Canberra Times and The Bulletin.
"Bone Readers provides a clear and accessible account of the interweaving of science and politics in human origins research in Australia...Science is not a completely social construct, but it does not take place in a sociopolitical vacuum, either. Bone Readers makes excellent supplementary reading to a main textbook for an upper-level undergraduate course in archaeology or human evolution. Furthermore, to anyone interested in the various threads that make the tapestry of human origins research, Bone Readers provides much food for thought." --Sang-Hee Lee, Journal of Anthropological Research
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