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Thought the Coopers Ferry dig was overhyped until I watched a kid pull a 16,000 year old tool out of the dirt
I was at the Coopers Ferry site in Idaho volunteering on a Friday dig and honestly I showed up skeptical, figured it was mostly hype and dirt. About an hour in, a college student named Maya scraped her trowel against something hard and pulled out a worked stone blade, and the site lead just went quiet. Turns out the layer she was in dated back roughly 16,000 years, which pushed back what I thought about who was here and when. I spent the rest of that day rethinking every careless scoop I'd ever made, and I signed up for two more weekends on the spot. Anyone else have a dig moment where a single find completely flipped how you read a site?
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baker.simon8h ago
Wait, the site lead just went quiet? That part is wild to me. Like a person who has probably seen hundreds of finds just stops talking because they know what it means. I got chills reading that. Sixteen thousand years is already hard to wrap my head around, but a single blade turning a whole site's timeline upside down is another level. That kid Maya is never gonna forget that Friday, and honestly neither would I.
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