How archaeologists find the truth (and you can, too) | Trevor Wallace | TEDxDaltVila

This past fall, my team and I uncovered a graveyard full of ancient shipwrecks in western Monorca. But what really surprised us is that they were relatively undisturbed. Something almost unique in the Mediterranean and rare in the whole world.But for me, the biggest discovery was not a wreck or an artifact, but a series of lessons about truth that archaeology can teach us. One, truth is firsthand. Two, truth is slow.And three, the thing that we are looking for can often get in the way of truth. But before g ...