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I love that this includes modern artifacts as well. The nineties mobile phone already looks archaeological by comparison to modern ones.
There's an Ericsson GH388 phone I used in 90s!

IIRC it was my first mobile.

Never used Nokia though it had major market share those days.

This is basically just a massive database of litter that documents what people threw in the canal over the centuries. It is interesting to see the materials change as you scroll from the older dates up to the present day.
Crazy to see how they just destroy historical artifacts for their agenda of building. We need to build less and preserve the past.
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Brings back a range of memories. I was one of the archaeologists on the project near the Amsterdam central station, a dig site accessible through an airlock because it was inside of the "caisson" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisson_(engineering)) that was lowered into the old Amstel riverbed. It was the weirdest archaeological project I have participated in, by quite a wide margin, being inside a complex engineering project.

Also, after making a career switch from archaeology to software engineering, even weirder to see my former occupation and project dig site re-emerge here on HN