Did they find any stone time cards?
Seriously though, this is a fascinating find.
Well, they are the modern stone-age family.
I’d hate to be the poor bastard who had to count 17,000 flint items. I didn’t like doing that with just hundreds of chert, quart and rhyolite points and scrapers. A guy can cut his fingers off if he isn’t careful.
However, finding projectile (spear) points and arrow heads is a great way to describe a production site for a specific culture or tribe.
My work in Pennsylvania helped to show how different tribes travelled down the Susquehanna River (at Bainbridge, Pa. riverside site) and traded. In one instance, I found a black basalt point that was exactly the same dimensions as another basalt point of a totally different style.
Surmised that the same person made both points (pre-colonial, possibly Archaic). Others carried on the work at the site but I never saw their final reports (we should have gotten them in our class the next year but didn’t. I suspect that teacher/pets politics had something to do with what was published and what wasn’t).
Oh well. Found a great, multi-faceted ceremonial quartz(ite) dagger (about 9 inches long or more) just lying on a house mound in the outer area around Tikal. That is definitely in a museum.. Been lying there for about 900 years or more, calling my name. I heard the call.
Archaeology is a fascinating avocation and you can follow it in “Archaeology” magazine among others.
I wonder what they’ll find of ours 60,000 years from now?
Will they be shocked by how primitive we were...or will there even still be humans that weren’t replaced by robots?