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A comment on 5k-Year-Old Tavern with Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq. Parent comment

Re:5k-Year-Old Tavern with Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq by penguinvondoom on Thursday March 02, 2023 @06:47AM (#34994633)
bones, seeds etc. can fossilize
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Re:5k-Year-Old Tavern with Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq by AlotOfReading on Thursday March 02, 2023 @10:07AM (#34996545)
They can, but usually not on the relatively short timescales we use in archaeology. It's not what happened here, for example.
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