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My partner is an archaeologist and this is an entertainingly common occurrence with older digs. She reassessed a few as part of some old work in the past few ye
by robotmay 8y ago
My partner is an archaeologist and this is an entertainingly common occurrence with older digs. She reassessed a few as part of some old work in the past few years and found that some bones were from lunch on the dig-site :|
- ASalazarMX 8y agoHow can that be? Are buried ancient bones indistinguishable from buried recent bones?
- sten 8y agoCould be sea food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating#Reservoir_effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating#Reservoir_e...