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the_charles
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20h ago
Hot take: the Antikythera mechanism had at least 30 bronze gears and I can't stop thinking about it
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parker_park8
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23h ago
Showerthought: I burned $85 on the wrong fossil prep tool and ruined a 40 dollar trilobite
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tarar27
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1d ago
Why I think the 'lost city' headlines in archaeology do more harm than good, and the 14 month mess that changed my mind
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west.anna
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2d ago
Week before last at a site near Abilene, we pulled 14 points in 3 days and then found out what we were actually digging
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jessicac28
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2d ago
Got roasted on a dig forum for calling a soil stain a hearth, and honestly it made me better at recording
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hayden466
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3d ago
Update: I thought the burned layer at a dig near Flagstaff was just a campfire, and the lab proved me wrong
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xena_brown50
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3d ago
PSA: a site director at a dig near Tucson told me to stop bagging artifacts by depth alone, and it fixed my whole catalog
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terry_lewis21
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4d ago
I thought carbon dating was mostly guesswork until a grad student explained the calibration curve to me
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tarag28
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4d ago
Shoutout to the museum volunteer in Denver who showed me why 1,200 year old footprints got preserved in Utah
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elizabethg18
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6d ago
Hot take: that 'lost city' lidar hype in Guatemala is mostly just old corn fields
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the_pat
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6d ago
Warning: I blew $220 on a cheap ground penetrating radar kit and it found nothing but rocks
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janar16
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8d ago
Hot take: broke a 4,000 year old pot sherd on purpose to see how it breaks, now I'm not sure I was wrong
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margaret99
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8d ago
Update: finally saw the Roman mosaic at Chedworth and nobody warns you about the little things
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sagep19
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12d ago
Why does nobody warn you that fake fossils are eating this hobby alive
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janaallen
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12d ago
Found a 2,000 year old Roman coin in my backyard in Ohio...
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