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The Science of the Ice Age
The great thing about working on the ice age is youve we've got an enormous record of material lhie. So it's not like, say, working on a time period from some several hundred million years ago where there's only a few places on earth left to work on. This isage period deposits all over the place. And then we can use basic techniques like stratigraphy - which is just the simple premise that if you can properly dig an area and be sure which layer is on top of which layer. It isn't always as easy as you think, in a cave, for example. But if you can be fairly confident that the stuff at the bottom is older than
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