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Watched two excavation teams dig pits side by side and the difference was obvious
I volunteered at a dig outside Santa Fe last month and got to see two crews work the same trench. One team used a shovel and trowel like normal, the other used a dustpan and brush on every level. The brush crew found 3 times more tiny pottery shards and even a broken arrowhead in a 4 foot square. I always thought speed mattered for covering ground, but taking it slow with a brush was clearly better for detail. Has anyone else switched to finer tools and seen a jump in small finds?
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miller.eva20d ago
Brush crew sounds like they were trying to clean a crime scene instead of dig a hole... hope that arrowhead was worth all the extra time.
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drew80520d ago
Tbh "worth all the extra time" is a bit dramatic for an arrowhead. I mean yeah it's a cool find but it's not like they were digging for buried treasure or something. Ngl most of those government brush crews I've seen are just slow by nature anyway, not like they were rushing to get to lunch. If they took longer so some guy could grab a souvenir, who cares? It's not like the world was on fire while they were doing it.
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