Just realized I had been misdating pottery shards for years

Always thought rim thickness was the quick way to date pottery. Mentor kept pushing temper and firing marks instead. Then last month in New Mexico I pulled two shards from the same layer with nearly matching rims but one had crushed quartz and the other had sand. Lab dating showed the quartz one was Pueblo III the sand was early Colonial time. Realized I'd been misreading the whole site for 4 years. Anyone else stick to a bad method too long?

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luna_craig5813h ago

Four years of bad data has to sting, I messed up my own timeline once too.

elizabeth2208h ago

Brutal lesson to learn the hard way.