Monday, January 20, 2025

Inadvertent animal archaeologists

FAUNAL-ASSISTED ARCHAEOLOGY: 10 Animals That Made Archaeological Discoveries (Ben Gazur, Listverse). Apropos of nothing much, except that I am surprised I didn't know about any of these.

PaleoJudaica has noted such discoveries from time to time. These include two excavations by porcupines, a mole-rat archaeological survey, and an equine figurine recovery that involved heavy rain, and perhaps foxes or (again) porcupines.

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