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Good NYT article as well https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/science/archaeology-britain-must-farm.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/science/archaeology-b
by SamBam 3y ago
Good NYT article as well
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/science/archaeology-britain-must-farm.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/science/archaeology-brita...
https://archive.is/R2nA5 https://archive.is/R2nA5
A tidbit I found interesting:
> Interest in Must Farm was first aroused in 1999 when a Cambridge University archaeologist spied a series of oak posts poking out of the beds of clay at the quarry. Dendrochronology dated the poles to prehistory,
I love that dendrochronology is now at a level that we can quickly look at some tree rings from a fragment of wood and fairly accurately date it. From my understanding, though the field has been around for a while, it's only been in the past decade or so that we're able to do that kind of thing.