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DAE start taking field notes differently after that first trowel scrape at a dig?
I was at a small excavation site in southern Utah about two years ago, working a grid square that everyone else had given up on. My trowel hit something hard around 30 centimeters down, and I almost brushed it off as a rock until I looked closer and saw it was a piece of worked obsidian. That moment changed how I document everything. Before that dig, I used to just snap a few phone pictures and scribble rough notes at the end of the day, but the site director pulled me aside and said I needed to record the exact depth, soil layer, and orientation right when I find something. Now I carry a small notebook and a scale bar everywhere, and I write down every detail within a minute of uncovering anything. It sounds like a small habit but it has saved me from losing context on at least three finds since then. Has anyone else had a single discovery totally change their field methods?
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