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A random professor's dating tip for digs ended up shifting my whole approach to the field season
Last summer on a site near Santa Fe, this crusty old field school instructor told me to stop rushing the surface collection and spend 15 minutes just staring at the ground before picking anything up. I thought it was total nonsense at first, we had 4 weeks to map 2 acres. Then on the third day I noticed these tiny obsidian flakes clustered around one juniper tree that everyone had walked past for a week straight. Turned out to be a small lithic scatter with 30+ pieces, and my crew lead said it probably would've gotten missed entirely if I hadn't done the stupid staring thing. Has anyone else got a weird field habit from an elder that actually proved useful, or am I just easily influenced by old guys with sunburned necks?
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