The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If the study of fossils was not mentioned by Aristotle or Thucydides, and it wasn't, then it just didn't exist for many classicists and ancient historians.
I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.
Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text.
When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.
Without stones there is no arch.
The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense.
I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.