Question: How fossils have you dough up?

Carl Heron answered on 2 Nov 2018:

OK. Fossils are dug up by wonderful scientists called palaeontologists. They look for evidence of really, really old plants and animals, including……um……dinosaurs and even bacteria that are hundreds of millions of years old. Look up the term stromatolites to find out more about ancient bacteria. Palaeontologists are interested in how animals and plants adapted to their environment and how these organisms changed over time. Fascinating. Any Natural History Museum will tell you much, much more.

I’m an archaeologist. Archaeologists study people in the past either directly from their remains or from the materials – the pots, clothing, weapons, houses, food waste and so on – they left behind. Archaeology is about us, who we are and where we came from. Just as fascinating as palaeontology, if not more so! Many museums have fantastic exhibitions about archaeology.

Thanks for asking! Carl (an archaeologist)