Archeology/geology/fossils meta-thread

[Scheiss Meister 8454]

13 hours ago, crash_davis said:

Lloyd's Bank Coprolite, also known as the largest fossilized human turd ever found. A Viking took this shit.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lloyds-bank-coprolite

THIS PIECE OF FOSSILIZED VIKING poop is so well-preserved, one paleoscatologist called it as “precious as the crown jewels.” Archaeologists have dated the dung back to the ninth century, when what’s now York was ruled by Norse warrior-kings.

Paleoscatologists determined that the human who deposited this now-renowned, seven-inch specimen had a diet of meat and bread. Unfortunately for that poor, long-dead soul, they also had a handful of intestinal issues. The scat was scattered with Whipworm and Maw-worm eggs, which would have caused stomach aches and other more unfortunate gastrointestinal symptoms.

 

I have two pieces of dinosaur coprolite on my desk, but that one would be a tad more appropriate.  Hmmm.

[Nivek 17354]

It is my hope that one day that dump I took in a N. Dakota field becomes fossilized and analyzed. My ghost will be happy.

[Scheiss Meister 8454]

I wonder what fossilized landfills will look like in a few million years, or after metamorphosis.

[NeverMarryAStripper 22247]

Since we are all going to be incinerated in a nuclear holocaust any minute, I'm guessing our fossilized landfills will look like this

[texasdago 7754]

Pretty much can't dig in Italy without unearthing something...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/italy-ancient-etruscan-statues-history-pre-roman-bronze-tuscany-rcna56158

[Biff Tannen 46069]

2 hours ago, texasdago said:

Pretty much can't dig in Italy without unearthing something...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/italy-ancient-etruscan-statues-history-pre-roman-bronze-tuscany-rcna56158

Wow, I was literally in that city in 2019 at a hotel with access to the hot springs.  Super cool.

[miguelito 11452]

10 hours ago, Nivek said:

It is my hope that one day that dump I took in a N. Dakota field becomes fossilized and analyzed. My ghost will be happy.

"Shit belongs in a museum!"  /Indiana Jones

[atomheartbevo 90558]

For some reason this is trending, and it’s the truth and @RDCanecutter and others can probably sympathize 

[atomheartbevo 90558]

But this was why I was posting and probably wrong thread  1,500 years old.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/gold-find-of-the-century-metal-detectorist-in-norway-discovers-massive-cache-of-jewelry

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An amateur metal detectorist has unearthed what experts are calling Norway's largest gold treasure find this century.

Erlend Bore, a 51-year-old Norwegian man, discovered the bounty — which contained nine pendants with "rare" gold symbols, three gold rings and 10 gold pearls — earlier this summer while exploring Rennesøy, a private island off the southwestern coast of the country, according to a translated statement.

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During his expedition, which was approved by the private landowner, Bore didn't expect to find much. But then his newly purchased metal detector started beeping as he traced it back and forth above the soil. A quick dig revealed an old wrapper from a chocolate bar. But then he spotted a lump protruding from the dirt.

"I was suddenly sitting with a gold treasure in my hands," Bore told the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), a Norwegian government-owned radio and TV public station. "There were lots of little gold pearls. Here it was important to get everything and not lose anything."

 

[52-80 19374]

7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

For some reason this is trending, and it’s the truth and @RDCanecutter and others can probably sympathize 

#RETVRN

[RDCanecutter 26858]

23 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

But this was why I was posting and probably wrong thread  1,500 years old.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/gold-find-of-the-century-metal-detectorist-in-norway-discovers-massive-cache-of-jewelry

 

Hmmm... Found on a "Private Island." Totally NOT dug up somewhere else on public land, then replanted and found on a private island.

[RDCanecutter 26858]

29 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

For some reason this is trending, and it’s the truth and @RDCanecutter and others can probably sympathize 

Roman Empire is a bit recent. Chez Canecutter we generally reenact Homo Sapiens woman getting chased around the cave by Neanderthal.

[NorthLoop 14422]

Sorry but if I find something like that it ain't making the news unless I find it in a country that lets me keep the money from it. 

[Brisketexan 106676]

2 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Roman Empire is a bit recent. Chez Canecutter we generally reenact Homo Sapiens woman getting chased around the cave by Neanderthal.

Your smug homonid elitism is revealed by your decision not to engage in australopithecus cosplay.  You fancy fucker.

[RDCanecutter 26858]

7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Your smug homonid elitism is revealed by your decision not to engage in australopithecus cosplay.  You fancy fucker.

I have been told I can have all the australopithecus girlfriends I want, and to enjoy the cooking at their caves because that's where I'll be living.