It's our 150th episode! Wow! This week we're starting our Back To School series with a short primer on stratigraphy. How do archaeologists divide a site into time periods? How did people first figure out that layers of sediment accumulate over time through different processes? How many dirt/soil/sediment puns is Anna capable of making in roughly forty minutes? We’ll find out.
Links
Stratigraphy: Earth's Geological, Archaeological Layers (ThoughtCo)
The Blasphemous Geologist Who Rocked Our Understanding of Earth’s Age (Smithsonian)
The Harris Matrix Tool for Comprehending the Archaeological Past (ThoughtCo)
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