My old dig partner in Rome told me most field notes get cleaned up before publication, and now I read every site report differently

Jenny Rivera · 2026-09-29T15:15:08.149467+00:00

She spent 2 seasons at Ostia and said the messy stuff, the stuff that doesn't make the final paper, is usually where the real questions hide, so now I wonder how much of what we call a discovery is just what survived the editing, you know?

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