Naked Science Forum
Life Sciences => Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution => Topic started by: GlentoranMark on 29/11/2009 02:01:58
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I'm watching Time Team, a UK Channel4 production on archaeology.
In the program they are dredging bones up from 30,000 years ago from the middle of the North Sea. While I can understand the area had life 30k years ago, I can't understand how the bones have survived.
The titanic was buried far deeper and had no human remains (afaik) yet North Sea fossilised bones were found by a dredging trawler confuses me.
Can anyone help?
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I suppose they were buried in sediment before before the sea level rose. The sediment would, presumably, protect them from marine animals.