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Showerthought: I used to just read the press releases about new digs, but after the 2023 Jericho site report, I started actually looking at the raw field notes online.
Honestly, seeing the actual sketches and 'maybe' notes from the trench supervisor gave me a way better feel for the uncertainty of the process than any polished article ever did, so has anyone else found a specific report that changed how you follow a discovery?
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leow9029d ago
My friend got obsessed with the Çatalhöyük field diaries.
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benreed29d ago
Piperr58 gets how the boring bits make the good stuff hit harder.
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What about the boring stuff, like soil reports? The Merv project puts up PDFs of their daily logs. Reading "layer 27, more of the same compacted clay, no finds" for a whole week makes you feel the grind. Then you hit the entry that just says "coin hoard, stop everything" and it's a total gut punch. That slow burn made the find real for me.
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