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Spent three days trying to match a pottery shard to a known type before realizing it was from a broken modern flower pot someone tossed in the dig site.
Has anyone else found a piece of 'ancient history' that turned out to be something totally recent and mundane?
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fiona_webb6mo ago
Ever wonder if some of the 'junk' we toss aside at sites is actually planting false clues for future diggers? I had a student get so excited over a 'worked flint' that was just a piece of gravel shattered by a lawnmower. Makes you question every little thing you pick up.
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joel_adams796mo ago
That lawnmower flint story is wild. How do you even train your eye to tell the difference between that and the real thing?
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elliotb576mo ago
My old neighbor used to collect "arrowheads" from his garden. Had a whole shoebox full of rocks that just looked like rocks. Makes you see that kind of mistake everywhere now.
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