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derekhenderson
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2h ago
I spent 2 years dismissing a local farmer's stone piles as junk, then a guy from the state museum in Topeka looked at one photo and asked if I had recorded the soil layers
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quinnm90
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23h ago
Turns out those "ancient alien" carvings at Gobekli Tepe are just worn animal reliefs, and I finally saw the 2021 photos that prove it
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grant_dixon
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1d ago
Dropped $65 on a 'guaranteed' metal detector spot in Virginia, dug up 40 pull tabs and one rusty horseshoe
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mark611
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2d ago
Warning: One afternoon in a trench in Jordan gave me more pottery than my whole season, and I still cant decide if that was lucky or a disaster
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spencerr87
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3d ago
Dug up my own backyard for 3 hours looking for arrowheads and found a 1940s bottle cap instead
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ryan952
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7d ago
Shoutout to the BLM guy in Roswell who told me to stop digging with a shovel and start sifting
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juliagonzalez
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7d ago
Why does nobody warn you that context is everything until your trench wall collapses
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kelly_roberts
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10d ago
Shoutout to the volunteer at Cahokia who let me hold a 900 year old arrowhead
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irishenderson
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12d ago
Watching a grad student brush dirt off a jawbone at a dig near Abilene totally changed how I clean my garden tools
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jason_kelly8
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14d ago
Spent 6 weeks trying to figure out what a bone needle was for, then a park ranger in Mesa Verde pointed at my own jacket
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quinn582
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18d ago
Found my first whole point in the field last Friday after 3 trips to the same creek bed in central Texas
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aaron_foster20
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19d ago
Skipped the field class for a 3 week lab stint in Tucson, and the lab found a 900 year old pot handle
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rivera.jake
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21d ago
I finally hit 1,000 hours in my local museum's dig lab and I'm weirdly emotional about it
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xena886
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23d ago
Hot take: I saw a museum storage room go from chaos to a real archive in 6 weeks
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ruby_foster93
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23d ago
Am I the only one who thinks wet sieving is cheating? Found 12 microdebits at a site in Arkansas that dry screening missed completely
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