Which of the following describes the sequence of events leading to the discovery of fossil sites such as Swartkrans in South Africa?
Group of answer choices
Countless animals are caught in the volcanic ash from a major volcano such as Krakatoa, and their bones fossilize. Later, they wash out of a bank and are discovered by paleontologists.
Hominins hunt antelope and other animals; the animals are butchered and cooked on a hearth; the burned bones are left behind, fossilize, and are later discovered.
A large flood causes thousands of animals to drown; many of the animals’ bodies are washed down a river and trapped in a dam of corpses, tree branches, and sediment; the buried bones become fossils and are later found.
A leopard takes an antelope it has killed into a tree, the bones from that meal fall into a below-ground cave; sediments fill the cave; erosion exposes the sediments where fossils of the leopard’s meal are found.
