Vent: A volunteer at the Cahokia Mounds dig last summer kept pointing out tiny bone fragments everyone else was walking past.

He just kept saying, 'Look down, the story is in the dirt,' and now I can't walk across a plowed field without scanning the ground... does anyone else have a simple piece of advice that completely changed how you see a site?

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diana1551d ago

Oh wait, I think you can walk on the plowed fields around it though, just not the mounds themselves. But yeah, totally get what you mean about looking down now lol.

hill.troy1d ago

Wait, you can walk on the plowed fields? That feels so wrong! Like, that's still part of the whole site, isn't it? I'd be so scared of accidentally kicking up some tiny piece of pottery or something important. Just knowing I'm standing where people lived a thousand years ago would make me freeze up.

haydenj901d ago

Honestly, that's a great mindset but I have to say Cahokia Mounds is a protected site. You can't just walk over and pick stuff up, you need to be with the pros. That volunteer was right to make you look down, but they should've also stressed the rules. It's all about seeing the story without messing it up.