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Pro tip: a museum guard in Tulsa made me rethink why I care about old tools at all
I was at the Gilcrease a few Saturdays back looking at a case of stone scrapers, and this guard who has worked there 14 years asked me why people always crowd the arrowheads and skip the hide scrapers. I said arrowheads are the cool ones, obviously. He laughed and said the scrapers are the real story because they show what people did every single day, not just the one big fight. I stood there for a good 20 minutes after he walked off and it bugged me. I think he was right, and now I have zero patience for digs that get written up because someone found one flashy point. The boring stuff is the record. So who else has a story about a regular site worker or volunteer changing how you look at the small finds?
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