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DAE have a professor who told them to stop hunting for 'the big find' and it totally changed how you dig?
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grant.parker1d ago
I spent my first two field seasons convinced I was one shovel away from some career-making discovery, and all I got was a sunburn and a collection of dirt stains on my jeans. My old advisor sat me down after I dug like forty test pits in one spot and basically said the big find usually happens to people who stop chasing it and just do the boring work well. It stung at the time because nobody wants to hear that their big moment is a fantasy. But once I stopped swinging for the fences every single day, I actually started noticing stuff I had been walking right past, like small patterns in the soil and tiny flakes I would have tossed aside before. The irony is that the decent stuff I did end up finding came after I quit trying so hard to be the hero of my own dig. So yeah, that advice wrecked my ego and then quietly made me a way better archaeologist.
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