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Spent two whole days trying to match a pottery shard from a dig site in Catalhoyuk

We found this tiny piece with a specific red ochre pattern last Tuesday, and I was sure I'd seen its match in a box from the 2018 dig. It took me 48 hours of sorting through thousands of fragments in the lab before I finally found the other half. Has anyone else had a simple matching job blow up into a multi-day nightmare?
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aaron740
aaron7401mo agoTop Commenter
Wait, you sorted through thousands of pieces?
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jana881
jana8811mo ago
That documentary on Catalhoyuk pottery took three years to finish.
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leehall
leehall1mo ago
Wow, that's archaeology in a nutshell.
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