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Mr Ambekar says the age of the skeleton he and his team found was estimated based on a DNA analysis of its teeth and a stratigraphic study of the excavation site.

From BBC • May 5, 2025

“It would have been rejected 10 years earlier if they had not avoided presenting it to the stratigraphic community for careful consideration.”

From Science Magazine • Mar. 4, 2024

Recent excavations at the site have uncovered a continuous stratigraphic sequence that allows for detailed dating and the establishment of an absolute chronology for events at the site.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

And so most stratigraphic experts have settled on 1950 as the curtain-raiser for the Anthropocene.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2023

Thomas Jefferson removed a slice from a mound on his estate, examined the stratigraphic layers, and announced that Indians had made it.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann