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My professor said most field notes get thrown away and now I can't stop thinking about it
I was talking with my old archaeology professor at a diner near campus in Boise and she mentioned that maybe 90 percent of field notes from old digs never get published or archived anywhere. She pulled out a shoebox from a 1978 dig in southern Idaho with pottery shard sketches and nobody has ever looked at them since. That hit me hard because we spend so much time chasing the big finds and not enough time saving the boring paperwork. I think our whole field is sitting on a mountain of info we will lose when these people pass away. Has anyone here ever tried to track down old field notes from a dig that was never written up?
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