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patmartinez
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16h ago
That afternoon at the Field Museum when a curator let me hold a 2,000 year old pot
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kim819
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1d ago
Heard a museum guide say the bone was 1,200 years old and nobody in the room flinched
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masonm70
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3d ago
The museum volunteer at the Denver digs table told me to stop washing pottery sherds in the bucket
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gracewebb
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4d ago
The museum guide in Tucson claimed the pots were fakes and honestly she had a point
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alexc93
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6d ago
My trench wall caved in on Tuesday and a $12 tarp saved the whole dig
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the_tara
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7d ago
Dropped $60 on a cheap endoscope camera for cave art sites and it actually worked
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ray_miller41
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8d ago
Dug a site in Turkey with a trowel and brush, then tried the same spot with a sieve and screen, and the sieve found 4x the pottery shards
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the_troy
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9d ago
Unpopular opinion: that 2018 Pompeii horse find got more hype than the whole street of shops next to it
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the_laura
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10d ago
Showerthought: spent 5 hours on a museum's online catalog looking for one pot because I typed the wrong century
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david37
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11d ago
TIL the weird clay pipe piece I found in my mom's garden in Ohio is probably a 1800s drainage tile, not a 'mystery artifact'
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allen.ivan
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14d ago
Why does nobody talk about the tiny drainage holes on Roman pots being a whole plumbing system
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umathompson
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18d ago
Spent 11 weeks trying to date a pottery shard from a site near Tucson, turns out the answer was in a 1978 letter
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miam75
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19d ago
Unpopular opinion: the 24,000 year old footprints at White Sands bug me more than they should
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riley_taylor
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20d ago
Spent $45 on a cheap USB microscope and IDed a maker's mark on my first try
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blakem37
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20d ago
Guy at the Mesa dig site told me to stop bagging pottery together, still think he was half right
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