The protolith age of the Narryer Gneiss Terrane is variable, but generally considered to be in excess of 3.6 Ga (billion years).

NOT long after he bought and renovated an 1890 brick Victorian as a weekend house in Easton, Pa., Carl Martinez, then 41, did what many people his age would consider unthinkable: He invited his parents, Pat and Mehry Martinez, both retired librarians, to move in.

All ages & medical conditions considered.

Yet, perhaps most remarkable is that most people Olga's age consider it an accomplishment - and exercise - simply to be breathing in and out!

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good--the atavism of an old ideal.

Even more potentially unsettling for scholars, Dr. Stringer said recently, an age of 1.6 million years "would make us sit up and consider the possibility that Homo erectus was much more widespread than we thought and could have existed outside Africa and then migrated to Africa" to replace Homo habilis.

Still, in 1930 The New York Times labeled Bahia and the other warships in Brazil's navy as "obsolete" and noted that nearly all were "older than the ages considered effective by powers signatory to the Washington and London Naval Treaties."

In fact, Mr. Jones insists, they are historical documents of great value - the best indexes to the state of the art market at a given moment, clues to what an age considered signs of authenticity, marks of cultural desire.