Rock of Ages, Sands of Time, paintings by Barbara Page, text by Warren
Allmon, University of Chicago Press, $45, ISBN 0226644790
TO SEE fossils grouped as they might be found in the ground normally involves
tramping between different collections, or even different museums. Collections
are separated into groups—vertebrate, invertebrate and so on. It’s
logical, but it doesn’t give any information about fossils as archaeologists
find them, an essential point in interpretation.
This monumental work should be the answer. Next year the Museum of the Earth
is due to open in Ithaca, New York, and startle visitors with a 500-foot…
