layering, if the ground is undisturbed, can only tell us how old something at least is. The object itself could be older than the soil it was found in. Take for

layering, if the ground is undisturbed, can only tell us how old something at least is. The object itself could be older than the soil it was found in. Take for example how every ancient artifact in a museum is older than the soil it sits upon. So it has its limits. Who is to say that some dead guy’s finger wasn’t handed down for millennia before getting picked up during a raid and tossed on the ground on the journey back as worthless junk? We can’t fathom.