“Archaeology possesses the technical apparatus for the investigation of deep time through excavation and chronometric dating.”

“By far, the most frequent chronometric age determinations link southeastern cave art with the Mississippian period.”

“One is relative, or chronostratigraphic, and the other is absolute, or chronometric.”

“This fact was not lost on the English mechanical genius John Harrison, who first pushed chronometrical precision into this ethereal realm.”

“With chronometrical precision Switzerland does away with all wolves, and is charged with the killing of at least 25 wolf cubs, which amounts to a generalised licence to kill.”

“Here Maury's chronometrical sea science intimates the degree to which the chronometer had come, in the Victorian age, to embody nothing less than rationality itself.”