From "A Short History of Nearly Everything"

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On paleontology:

"With so little to be certain about, scientists often have to make assumptions based on other objects found nearby, and these may be little more than valiant guesses. As Alan Walker and Pat Shipman have drily observed, if you correlate tool discovery with the species of creature most often found nearby, you would have to conclude that early hand tools were mostly made by antelopes."

-Bill Bryson

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My arch prof has brought this up. Everything is subjective. All time estimates are relative to what's above and below.