tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post6321962914978345006..comments2023-08-11T08:21:09.562-06:00Comments on A Very Remote Period Indeed: Archaeology and the Public: A Complicated Relationship?Julien Riel-Salvatorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05344338385695383003noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post-18447195050722615362008-03-03T07:29:00.000-07:002008-03-03T07:29:00.000-07:00Hi J Thomas -very good point! We often underapprec...Hi J Thomas -<BR/>very good point! We often underappreciate the potential impact on sedimentary accumulaton/diagenesis by prehistoric occupants of a given site.<BR/><BR/>The main problem, of course, would have to do with estimating the length and intensity (in the sense of number of people) of prehistoric occupations in the absence of observation and/or appropriate analogs. Certainly, it would Julien Riel-Salvatorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05344338385695383003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post-22508930487235804492008-02-29T06:17:00.000-07:002008-02-29T06:17:00.000-07:00What does this say about cave erosion when aborigi...What does this say about cave erosion when aboriginal people were using it?<BR/><BR/>Maybe there were long periods when each cave was unoccupied and often gaining sediment, and then short periods when people lived in it and the sediment increased slowly or decreased.<BR/><BR/>People might be doing some sort of analysis where this would make a difference. And this recent data might help with it. J Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03201350482758221085noreply@blogger.com