Showerthought: spent 5 hours on a museum's online catalog looking for one pot because I typed the wrong century

Laura Sanchez · 2026-10-12T15:55:08.527741+00:00

I was trying to track down a specific Moche ceramic vessel I saw referenced at a museum in Lima, and I typed 200 AD instead of 200 BC into their search filter. That one keystroke sent me through 300 pages of results over 5 hours, and I only figured it out when I went back to the original paper and saw the date. In that time I found 4 other pots I now want to read about even more. Has anyone else done this with archaeology databases, and is there a trick for spotting these mistakes faster?

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