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My old field notes contradict every recent article on Teotihuacan's tunnels
I dug through my binders from the 2003 INAH survey in San Juan Teotihuacan and everyone online keeps saying the tunnels were sealed before 600 AD, but I have a grid map showing access hatches still open in 2001. Guessing they're citing that one 1998 paper, but has anyone else hit this mismatch between old excavation logs and current scholarship?
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drewr151mo ago
Man, I ran into the exact same thing with my old logs from the 2005 Cholula project. Everyone's parroting that same dated source and it's like they never even peeked at the actual ground surveys. Idk if it's just laziness or what, but I trust what I literally mapped over some JSTOR article any day.
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evan_cooper731mo ago
We had the same issue with the 1987 Oaxaca valley survey data. Someone kept citing the old published map but the actual field notes showed a completely different set of terraces on the eastern slope. I ended up scanning all my original notebooks and posting the raw sketches to a shared drive. Told people to ignore the article and look at the GPS tracks I logged. That shut down about half the arguments. The other half just didn't care about the ground truth, but at least the new grad students had something real to work from.
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