Practice question · Multiple choice
Why are waterlogged sites — bogs, wells, shipwrecks — so valuable?
Hints
- What does waterlogging stop?
- What appears that never appears elsewhere?
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B. They preserve the organic 90% that normally vanishes
Why
Anoxic water halts decay, and the missing categories reappear at once, usually showing that the picture built from stone and pot was wrong in exactly the direction the survival bias predicted.
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