Question: what would be your dream find on a dig, and why ??

Jennifer Bates answered on 15 Nov 2016:

Ooo, something really rare but important to our understanding of human use of plants and the environment, like a human body with blanket made of plants, and pollen to tell us about climate and environment, and good bones or even hair and skin so we could do isotope analysis to look at diet and migration, and some gut parasites to look at health. Maybe some beautiful artefacts made of plant remains as well, like bows and arrows, or pouches and clothing…I think I might almost have described Otzi the Ice Man! (http://www.iceman.it/en/the-iceman/) Such an amazing find! But I’d like it in more context, so maybe in a settlement with houses and other finds, somewhere like Must Farm (http://www.mustfarm.com/bronze-age-settlement/about/) so we could learn about where the person lived as well as how they were buried. That would be the dream find!