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My professor told me to ignore the surface scatter at the new site, but I found a complete Bronze Age awl 2 inches down.
He said the top layer was just modern farm debris, but after his team left, I did a quick probe in the same spot and pulled out a perfectly preserved copper tool from about 1500 BCE, so who's the amateur now?
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margaretramirez2mo ago
Maybe he just missed it, that happens sometimes lol.
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jamie_adams1mo ago
Walked away from" is right. I've learned to just take a few extra photos on my phone, close up and from a distance. Sometimes showing them the context on a screen makes it click.
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troy_price2mo ago
How many good finds get tossed aside like that?
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nguyen.angela2mo ago
Wait, he told you to ignore it because it was "modern farm debris"? That's wild. A complete awl from that period doesn't just show up in a field of trash. Makes you wonder what else they've walked away from over the years.
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