How Do You Find Those Sediments?

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Sometimes sights are just visible on the surface, and it doesn't mean necessarily that they have always been exposed on the surface. We go to certain areas where it's exposed. And so what we like to do is especially go to these gorges that have been cut deep into all these past lava floes. Sometimes they've sediments between them, sandwiches. I know enough we seve their sandwich between them, we know that they have to be older than the lava flow on top and younger than the lava Flow neath them. So we can know that o, whatever is in here, hopefully there's stone tools in there, it's between this 400 and forty thousand year old lava

Grab your fire extinguisher and hang on to your eyebrows, we’re building FIRES today. Now, this is pyrotechnology in the anthropological sense; the kind covered in hair metal concert venue liability insurance will have to wait for another day, no no, these are the kind your ancestors made. Get ready for sharp rocks, hairy jello, sooty caves, glowing coals, iron sparks, burnt feet, wolf skulls, fluffy fungus, molten metal, ember tending and more with Yale anthropologist and pyrotechnologist, Dr. Ellery Frahm.

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