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the_lucas
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3h ago
Found a 1930s dump pit behind my grandpa's barn in Ohio last week, and the stuff inside says more than any museum label
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perry.jesse
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1d ago
My uncle who digs at a site in Turkey told me looters hit the same trench twice in a month and it changed how I see museum pieces
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river_thompson
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2d ago
Spent 6 hours in the British Museum convinced a Roman coin was a fake
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danielk84
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2d ago
TIL I was wrong about the bone tools at Olduvai, a 1.8 million year old hand axe is not the whole story
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alex820
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4d ago
Met a retired digger at a Tulsa museum who said most field notes are worthless in 5 years
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kelly_rivera
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4d ago
Took me 3 weeks to figure out my flotation screen was catching all the good stuff
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sanchez.ivan
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5d ago
Guy at a dig site in Abilene kept calling every flint chip a tool, and the site report almost went out with his notes
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dakota_miller93
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6d ago
Unpopular opinion: spending $2 million to dig up a 9,000 year old chewing gum is a waste and I'm tired of pretending it's not
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waderamirez
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7d ago
I used to think those little grooves on old pottery were just decoration, then a museum worker in Tucson handed me a sherd
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pat_harris
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7d ago
Can we stop calling every bone fragment a ritual burial
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the_olivia
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12d ago
Watched a grad student at a dig near Abilene label 40 bagged samples in one afternoon, and it made me realize how slow I am
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milalewis
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12d ago
Shoutout to the museum volunteer in Denver who told me pot shards are the real story
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sean48
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12d ago
Pro tip: wetting the trench wall first saved my dig at a site near Tucson
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michael_williams
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12d ago
Unpopular take: that 12,000 year old footprint site is way overhyped and I say this as someone who dug there
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jamesc79
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13d ago
My professor said the pottery sherds in the topsoil layer were 'just noise' and I almost believed her until I found the real thing 6 inches down
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