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Rant: got the archaeology report from 2019 vs the one from 1978 and the difference is wild
The 1978 dig report for a site near Chaco had maybe 12 pages total and half the pottery was labeled "misc. sherds" because nobody had the reference collection. The 2019 report used drone mapping and pXRF on every rim, so we could actually trace where 340 pieces came from, down to the specific room block. Anyone else here worked with old site reports where the artifacts are basically a mystery?
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leo_black761mo ago
Old reports are a trip. Spent a whole summer trying to match "brown ware, room fill" to an actual type and just gave up and called it brown ware. Meanwhile the new report has chemical signatures for every sherd, makes me feel like I was doing arts and crafts instead of archaeology.
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