One early use of mason's trowels was at Morristown National Historical
Park.  Correspondence between Lorenzo Pond and another contemporary
archaeologist (1930s) discusses their usefulness as excavation tools.

Rich Veit

Kris Farmen wrote:
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> I was just reading about how Shovelbums.org is discussing with
> Marshaltown the possiblity of producing trowels with the
> shovelbums.org logo.  This is probably a dumb question, but does
> anyone know who were the first archaeologists to use trowels for their
> excavation?  It's such a good idea, it must have been a historical
> archaeologist. . . just musing aloud over the list. . .
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> Kris Farmen
> Northern Land Use Research, Inc.
> Fairbanks, Alaska