Really Old Tools

This morning I went to a class on South Asian archaeology with a professor who wrote the book on the subject... literally. The class was held in his office, on the top floor of the Archaeology museum tower. He has an incredible closet full of antiquities and hands them out to the class as a supplement to the discussions. I have never handled 20,000 year old stone tools before, and it makes everything I have ever studied up until now pale in comparison! I don't think I can ever go back to looking at slides now that I have handled the real thing! How many people are lucky enough to be able to study archaeology this way? Definitely worth getting up early for and braving the insane 8:30 am Cambridge roads.