Dave Hone
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They will decay pretty quickly, you know.
Sand storms, you know, sand just etches stuff.
The tiniest bit of moisture, particularly in winter, gets into the cracks.
Bones are incredibly porous.
That freezes, that expands, that cracks.
Bones just shatter.
And yeah, you find shattered bone on the surface everywhere.
What you rarely find is a decent bone on the surface, let alone a skeleton.
So there has to be something that's sticking out just a tiny bit.
So that you can see it, but it's still buried.
Right.
And it happens.
The greatest one that I saw or that I didn't see, it happened with a friend of mine when we were in northern China.
And he went, yeah, I can see a bit of a claw sticking out of a hill.
And it was.
It was like this much.
You could see, you know, less than a centimeter coming out of a hillside.
And it's like, so, you know, that's the dream.
Dig a little bit.
And there's a little bit more.