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We are talking about actual bones in living animals though, and those surely fossilize (preserve over eons) much more rarely than many civilizational artifacts.
by cubefox 3y ago
We are talking about actual bones in living animals though, and those surely fossilize (preserve over eons) much more rarely than many civilizational artifacts.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> those surely fossilize (preserve over eons) much more rarely than many civilizational artifacts I don't think they would fossilise. It's a process specific to the porosity of organic tissue. They might be preserved, but the Cambridge paper explains why it’s unlikely they would last for a hundred millennia or more.
- cubefox 3y agoBut surely it is much more unlikely that animal bones would last for a hundred millennia.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> surely it is much more unlikely that animal bones would last for a hundred millennia Why? The Cambridge paper gives a scientist’s reasons for that not being the case being supposition.