My old professor in Tucson swore the best finds come from re-reading excavation notes, and 20 years later he was right

Brian Lewis · 2026-10-14T02:30:03.204452+00:00

Back in 2003 he made our whole field school spend two weeks re-cataloging trays from a site dug in the 1970s, and last month a student found a tiny shell bead in that same collection that pushed the site's occupation back 500 years, so now I want to know if anyone else has had luck going back through old dig records instead of breaking new ground.

Vivisector

Loading…

My old professor in Tucson swore the best finds come from re-reading excavation notes, and 20 years later he was right | Archaeology Discoveries - Vivisector