Just catalogued my 1000th artifact from the Wupatki site

I was working through a box of pottery sherds from the 1960s Wupatki dig in Arizona and my database hit 1000 entries. It felt big because it's a full record of one field season's finds that was just sitting in a drawer. Has anyone else hit a cataloguing number that made a site's story click for them?

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morgan.joseph15d ago

Cataloguing always makes me think of a box of old survey maps we found in a back room. They were from a highway project that never got built in the 70s. Seeing all those hand drawn plots together, it wasn't just paper. It showed how much work went into a plan that just got shelved. Felt like finding ghosts.

the_nathan15d ago

My friend found a box of 300 letters from WW2 soldiers in a library basement. Reading them all together, you could feel the whole base waiting to ship out.