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PerformanceNow t1_j9p3nbo wrote

Reply to comment by JH76 in The First Fossil Finders in North America Were Enslaved and Indigenous People by nemo_to_zero

What do you mean? Isn't it part of the skillset to be an archaeologist? I know certain anthropologists specialize in it. But I had always thought archaeologists also had a cursory knowledge of the subject. Maybe I'm wrong.

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JH76 t1_j9p5xip wrote

Fossils are studied by Paleontologists. The vast majority of times, fossilization takes at least 10,000 years so archeologist, who themselves specialize in studying remains of human activity, tend not to look for or study fossils.

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PerformanceNow t1_j9pipge wrote

Hmm. I thought paleontologists were simply interested in animal fossils, not human fossils.

You learn something new everyday.

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