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A professor told me my field notes were useless, so I changed how I dig
Back in my first real dig season at a site near Cortez, Colorado, I was writing notes like a diary, stuff like "found a cool point today." The crew lead read them one evening and said flat out, "Nobody can use this. Where was it? What layer? What depth?" That stung, but she was right, so I started logging every find with grid coordinates, depth in centimeters, and soil color on the spot, even when my hands were freezing. Now my notes look boring but another archaeologist could pick them up and know exactly what I saw. Anyone else get roasted early on for sloppy documentation and totally change their system because of it?
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