“The tree’s remains are swathed in plastic and enclosed in a cardboard sarcophagus. The archival box is marked with sample and location codes. Inside, labeled sacks keep order: Charcoal, Bone, Nutshell.” The sound of an archaeological storage bag opening, then 10,000 year old nut shells sluicing out onto a petri dish:

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