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Re: Explain 'Little Lucy's deposition?

Subject: Re: Explain 'Little Lucy's deposition?
From: "Paul Crowley"
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:41:36 +0100
Newsgroups: sci.anthropology.paleo, sci.bio.paleontology
"Gerrit Hanenburg" <G.Hanenburg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Alemseged's team believes that a flood rolled the child's body
>>> into a ball and buried it in sand soon after her death, before
>>> the bones could be weathered or pulled apart by scavengers.
>>
>>Every year numerous bodies are deposited by
>>floods (such as by the tsunami of 20 months
>>ago)  How many are 'rolled into a ball'?
>
> There is no indication that it was "rolled into a ball".

"Alemseged's team believes that a flood rolled the
child's body into a ball".   Gerrit Hanenburg can't
see any sign of that.  They have worked with the
fossil for years.  Gerrit has never seen it.

Whom should we believe?

Hmmm . . . . tough.


Paul.




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