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My professor told me to ignore the small pottery shards at the site in Crete.
Turns out those 'shards' were part of a Minoan libation table that changed the whole dig's focus. Anyone else have an expert's advice backfire on them in the field?
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willow2442d ago
Had a similar thing happen with what looked like plain charcoal. A senior researcher said to just bag it for later, but I ran a quick pH test on a hunch. It was alkaline, not acidic like wood ash. That got us looking closer and it turned out to be residue from a metalworking area. Sometimes you just have to check the small stuff yourself.
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