My team just cataloged our 10,000th artifact from the coastal dig

We've been working on this site for three years now, and hitting that number really made me stop. It means we've found over three times what the initial survey predicted. Most of them are pottery shards and fish bones, but the sheer volume tells a story about how many people lived there. Has anyone else had a dig where the artifact count totally changed your view of a site?

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the_taylor16d ago

Wait, but doesn't more stuff mean more people were there making and using it? That seems like a big deal to me.

the_hugo16d agoTop Commenter

But isn't quantity just... stuff? Doesn't always mean it was a big deal.