The 3D scan of a cow bone that made me eat crow

So I've been following this local field school near Santa Fe that posts their finds online. Last month they put up a 3D scan of a cracked cow bone with weird cut marks. I figured it was just a butchering thing, you know, someone was hungry 200 years ago. I even commented that they were hyping a lunch scrap. Turns out the marks were from a specific type of stone tool used around 9,000 BCE. A buddy of mine who studies lithics said the pattern matched stuff from the Clovis site in New Mexico. I spent 20 minutes zooming into the scan and comparing it to published photos. It was legit. I had to delete my comment and apologize in the thread. Has anyone else been that confident about a find and gotten absolutely roasted?

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ivan5971mo ago

Rule number one I learned the hard way: always screenshot your confident guess before posting it, because the thread will come back for you... I've been there too, zooming in on 3D scans like a detective and still almost argued with a professor once over a dent that was just a root mark. Now I just say "interesting, what do you all think?" and let the experts do the talking.

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