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3. How to find fossils:

4. Place changes: tectonics NOT IN CHAPTER RB

5. Archaeology: Other steps in archaeology Archaeology is the study of ancient and recent human past through material remains and example of this is in A Bone From a Dry Sea on page "On the table were what looked like flakes of stone arranged in rows on two trays. Most of them were smaller than a penny. Between the trays was a rounded blob of Plasticine, onto which a few flakes had been fitted together to form two irregular patches, each about half the size of Vinny's palm. 'Is it someone's skull?' she said 'Correct.'" This is an example of a type of archaeology that is used to help Identify fossils.

For More information go to: [[1]] or A Bone From a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson