technofossil

“Plastic will definitely be a signature ‘technofossil’, because it is incredibly durable, we are making massive amounts of it, and it gets around the entire globe,” says the palaeontologist Prof Sarah Gabbott, a University of Leicester expert on the way that fossils form.

‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones Damian Carrington 2025

This thought-provoking study by palaeobiologists Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz discusses ‘technofossils’: the vast remnants of modern civilization.

Fossilized technology: Books in brief Andrew Robinson 2025