Just catalogued my 500th pottery shard from the dig site near Tucson! | Archaeology Discoveries

Caleb Price · 2026-03-15T23:10:08.078464+00:00

It took me three months to sort and log them all, but hitting that number made me realize we've uncovered a much larger settlement than we first thought.

elliot_thomas826mo ago

Honestly used to think cataloging was just busy work, like glorified box checking. Then I helped a friend sort some glass from a 19th century dump site. Seeing the patterns in the glass colors and thicknesses, it clicked. That pile of broken stuff started telling a story about who lived there and what they bought. Now I get why hitting 500 pieces feels like a real discovery, not just a number.

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chen.adam7mo ago

Wait, you sorted 500 pieces by yourself? That's a crazy amount of pottery for one person to go through.

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the_oscar7mo ago

That's a huge find, and I totally get that feeling from my own cataloging work!

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