My professor told me to always grid a site, even when it seems obvious

I was helping on a dig near Tucson last fall, and we were clearing what looked like a simple trash pit. I thought I could just dig straight down, but my old professor's voice kept nagging me... so I spent half a day setting up a one-meter grid. Found three distinct layers of artifacts that told a story of trade over 200 years, which we would have totally mixed up. Anyone else have a piece of advice that felt like a pain but saved a project?

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zara4474d ago

Oh man, that's so true! My supervisor always said to bag every single flake, even the tiny ones. It felt silly until we pieced together a whole tool from what looked like just debris. That advice really saved our data.

finley_craig534d ago

Sounds like a lot of work for some flakes, @zara447.