[js1138]

It may be possible to accelerate fossilization a laboratory. Maybe one could cook a pear in a bath of water-glass or someting similar.

Wouldn't someone have tried it? Seems to me there would be a market for fake fossiles.

[Virginia-American]

It may be possible to accelerate fossilization a laboratory...

Wouldn't someone have tried it?

Whoever made the Piltdown fraud cooked spcimens in iron (or magnesium?) compounds to make them appear older.