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My professor said to always check the spoil heap first... he was right
On a dig in southern Spain last summer, we were stuck on a feature for days. My old professor always said, "The real story is in what they threw away, not what they kept." So I spent a morning sifting through the backfill pile from the 1920s excavation. Found a tiny bronze coin fragment everyone else missed... it dated the whole layer to the late 3rd century. Changed our whole timeline for the site. Anyone else have a simple piece of advice that saved a project?
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zara_patel575mo ago
My old foreman always said to trust the original build first. I've seen too many people waste time chasing ghosts in the rubble.
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hart.charlie5mo ago
Wait, your foreman said that? That's wild. @zara_patel57, the original build is often the problem. You gotta check the changes first, not just trust old work.
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