My professor totally flipped my view on arrowheads

Had a chat with my archaeology prof after class Tuesday. He said most arrowheads people find were actually just scrap pieces thrown away, not lost weapons. Now I'm rethinking every artifact I've ever cataloged at our dig site in Colorado, anyone else have their brain rewired by a simple comment?

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grace_perry442mo ago

That 7th grade science teacher I had who said most of what people call "fossils" are just weird rocks messes with my head to this day. It's wild how we take the first explanation we hear and run with it until someone casually drops the real one.

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logan_thomas872mo ago

I actually read somewhere that like 99% of all species that ever lived never got fossilized because the conditions have to be just right for it to happen. So yeah that teacher wasn't totally wrong I guess, most stuff just rots away or turns into weird rock shapes.

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