They are not always found in that order. In more instances than one, human remains have been found interspersed with dinosaur remains. One example is the Ashley Phosphate Beds near Charleston, South Carolina. Human remains have been found in many different strata. There have been at least one finding of human footprints made in the same mud as dinosaur footprints. There have been several human artifacts found embedded in lumps of coal.

The reason dinosaur fossils are USUALLY found in different strata than human fossils is most likely because their bodies were denser and they sank to the bottom more quickly, and were buried in an earlier layer of mud, a few hours or so before the next layers, including more humans. It is quite likely that a number of humans survived for a few hours or even days by hanging onto flotsam such as trees. if their bodies were buried near the top, they would have rotted rather than fossilizing. many mammal bodies have a tendency to bloat quickly after dying, meaning they could have floated and not been fossilized so much as dinosaurs.

Many possibilities. Just keep closing your mind to them. We can't see you if you close your eyes.

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My bad-- did a little more research-- pines and spruce, not oaks-- and it so happens that they used radio-carbon, not tree rings, to find the age of this so-called oldest tree-- radio-carbon and other such dating techniques are a flawed concept because you never can tell if the material started with the amount in it that you think it did. Bristlecone pines with around 5000 rings are the oldest trees I know of.

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