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Originally Posted by renormalised
As a geologist, if I were to identify a trilobite that was buried in the same sediments as a T-rex femur, and then said the trilobite was the same age as the T-rex femur, I'd be laughed at!!!.
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That's not what they say though . Field archaeology is very rigorous indeed and you can see the teams of analysts collating the site material in the tents on site. Do you remember an early episode when some guy had salted a site with relics? It was fascinating as the team saw through the scam very quickly due to the distribution and representation of the finds. Top science!
And from a pottery perspective, Pot shards are the graptolites of Archaeology - highly indicative of period.
PS I studied Archaeology & Geology (and Astronomy) at Uni
