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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Peat is anoxic. It’s great for preservation and you get tonnes of stuff that doesn’t preserve elsewhere. Google “Must Farm, UK”

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  • Enkrod@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well the human gut is anoxic too, so that shouldn’t be a problem for the gut-bacteria in that log and in the bog mummies. I think it way more likely that the sphagnan and the other tannins in peat-bog-water conserved this as well as the bog bodies.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Enkrod@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That is extremely cool and I don’t doubt your expertise in the slightest. Was only commenting about that anoxic conditions alone wouldn’t necessarily preserve the bog mummies, but that the acidic conditions and tannins are likely more important.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • weariedfae@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bog bodies are dope as hell.

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  From …org.uk/…/environmental-archaeology-2nd/ (free pdf)

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