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christopher_west1
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13h ago
Hot take: the volunteer at a dig near Tucson told me to put my trowel down and it was the best call anyone made all season
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simontorres
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14h ago
Heads up if you hit the ghost town outside Ely, Nevada, the site markers there are barely holding on
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masonfisher
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1d ago
Just realized my old dig notebook from 1998 is better than any app I've tried since
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charlie_roberts87
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2d ago
Spent two summers bagging and tagging every flake at a site near Mesa Verde before a grad student asked about my screening
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the_keith
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3d ago
Why does nobody warn you about the guy who collects surface finds
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ivan82
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4d ago
Shoutout to the dirt stain that showed me where to dig at a site in Montana
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christopher_west1
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8d ago
The museum volunteer said my trowel angle was wrong at a dig near Flagstaff, and 2 seasons later I finally get it
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the_vera
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8d ago
Shoutout to the museum volunteer who told me my trowel technique was wrong
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stone.thomas
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10d ago
The mudlark guy on the Thames foreshore showed me a 300 year old pipe bowl and I finally got why context matters more than the object
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the_keith
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10d ago
Update: I paid $80 for a bucket of dirt from a "dig site" on eBay and got rocks from a driveway in Ohio
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sage52
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11d ago
Showerthought: it took me 3 weeks to figure out my "Roman" coin was a washer from a 1920s tractor
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tylerr29
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11d ago
Showerthought: my trowel snapped clean in half on a 400 year old midden and I just stood there
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gibson.sean
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12d ago
I figured lidar was overhyped for finding sites until a guy showed me the same hill in Guatemala before and after
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sagea88
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14d ago
Dropped $95 on a cheap metal detector and found 40 pull tabs and one rusty bolt, here is what changed my mind about the hobby
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the_skyler
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14d ago
Appreciation post: I was sure the bone marks at the site near Flagstaff were stone tool cuts
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