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)
• Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology (WGBH)
• About Sir Charles Lyell (University of Edinburgh)
• Charles Lyell (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• The Blasphemous Geologist Who Rocked Our Understanding of Earth’s Age (Smithsonian)
• Harris Matrix (Wikipedia)
• The Harris Matrix Tool for Comprehending the Archaeological Past (ThoughtCo)
• How to Read a Munsell Color Chart (Munsell Color)
• Atapuerca (Don’s Maps)
• Chicken Bones May Be the Legacy of Our Time (Smithsonian)

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