Vent: That dig in Turkey where they found a whole new layer under the 'final' floor

I was volunteering on a site near Antalya about three summers ago, and the lead archaeologist called it a day on a house ruin, saying the packed earth floor was the end. A grad student kept gently scraping one corner with a trowel for another hour and hit a different colored clay. It turned out to be a storage pit with intact pottery from a period we didn't even think was there. Now I never trust a 'clean' surface until I've checked every square inch myself. Has anyone else had a find that made them completely change their field method?

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the_wren1mo ago

What period was the pottery from, anyway?

rosethompson1mo ago

Honestly, feels like everything's from a landfill lately.