What of a Trash Heap!

                                                                            Attribution: Arthur Thomson
Image: The Java Man
Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)

It was a daunting task

To determine what it could have been

Sieving through layers upon layers

Of trash of no known origin

It was not foolproof but rather

A next best alternative

To plainly extend guesswork

Humanly possible to intensify

Based on evidences relative

To other similar specimens

To reach some form of conclusion

It could reveal the social fabric

Covering food ,clothing and implements

Which vowed to keep it a secret

Undisturbed for millions of years

Until archeologists arrived at the scene

The variety of artifacts could only have

Claims to prominence through conjecture

Of such scientific conclusions

Even the discovery of a single Java Man

Could still be mired in controversy

Whether it was an erect homo sapiens

Or just an ape or baboon of recent times

Being fastidious in collecting and collating

Of remnants of bones or skulls were by no

Means an accuracy of determining a fact

But rather of good methodology at best

Written for Peggy's hosting at Poetry Jam to write on It's All in the Trash and

Shared with ThomG's hosting at  3Word Wednesday with  words  
daunting, fastidious and intensify