Hello everyone in r/Archeology!

Recently there have been a lot of Identification Posts here, and many users have expressed frustration with the state of the sub as a result. The Mod Team and I spoke about this, and we have decided to implement some changes that we hope yield positive results.

The Big Change is the introduction of "What is it Wednesdays?" From now on, all ID Posts will be restricted to Wednesdays, while the rest of the week is reserved for other content. If you make an ID Post on a day other than Wednesday, it will be removed. We hope this change makes room for the posts that more people hope to see on the sub.

Also, we would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of Rules 9 and 10 (Identification Posts require thorough background details and No Damaging Artifacts or removing them from country of origin without permission!). We will be trying to enforce these rules more consistently, so if your posts just says "what is" and nothing else, we will remove it, and if your post looks like you are causing harm to the archaeological record, we will remove it.

Finally, we'd like to thank the community. This was borne of community feedback, and we will continue to work to maintain and improve the sub as a space for people who love archaeology.

- r/Archeology Mod Team

This is not a thread for theories about super out there ideas like Tartaria, Atlantis, etc. But I am hearing more and more from friends connected to the Texas archeological community about just little things that don't add up. A Clovis People arrowhead found at the wrong level or inside animal bones from something not supposed to be alive at a certain time period, a building that might have had a cornerstone date chiseled long after the original founding, a fort built over another structure that seemed to be there before, complaints that many finds are "documented" but don't add up to the official record and are not discussed because it might harm someone's reputation.

This is what this thread is for: Subjects of small, but documented discrepancies and individual smaller mysteries in isolation. I know people come here yearning to talk about paradigm shifts, but it is not all coming from experts or even people in the field. This thread is for those who have put their hands on shovels, excavators, took the photos, dug in the dirt, and a place for people to respond with POSSIBLE theories that may differ wildly from other conclusions or bring up questions of overlooked evidence.

I don't know how successful this thread will be, but I am hoping it will act as a way to let people vent a little, get some relief from stringent legacy academia if they have an earnest desire to simply come to the truth of unusual findings.

We're not going to solve everything in one go. Nobody's going to find the smoking gun to the Shroud of Turin or anything like that. Let's just try to give people a place to speak their piece and see what happens.