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If Google did Archaeology...

DateSun 2009-01-11

A thought that came to me while watching Phil Harding knapping flint on television a few months back:

If Google did archaeology they would scan all of the stones and soil particles from an archaeological site, identify each fragment of flint and produce a 3D software model of it, and then use software to reconstruct the original lumps of flint, and the sequence in which the fragments were taken off.

AuthorTristram Brelstaff | CommentPost a Comment |
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