20th September 2011, 06:33 PM
Sparky Wrote:Perhaps you should learn the meaning of 'taphonomy'.
Can we have a definition please? (ok, on here imagine we'll get about a dozen, but it should fill the next page or three) - when I was at Uni it was regarded as dangerously avant garde so barely mentioned in hushed whispers and not really meant for the grubby undergrads, you meaning what happens to stuff after it gets buried, resulting in the selective subset of data available to be recovered during excavation? - in which case I agree that Jack may have cast his net a little wide