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Pull Tab shipment from Finnie from Harrisburg Pennsylvania State University

This week we counted all pull tab from the 12,5 m (41 feet) pull tab beer chain sent by Finnie Wagaman!Finnie drank this entire chain together, with her college buddies Tom and Pat at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in the year 1985-1986! Consider sending your pull tabs, too!Or buy me a coffee at …

I solved the mystery of these weird things!

I finally solved the mystery of the presence of these weird old fashion T-type pull tabs in my neighbourhood. I already had a sneak’n suspicion, but I didn’t want to indulge in my biases, but when I visited the Turkish (I think) grocery store around the corner, I actually bought a can with a T-IV …

Pull Tab from South Australia from Justin

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Archeohotspots presentation (for our Dutch fans)

Dag allen, Sorry, this message is in Dutch as it is an announcement for a Dutch event. Not very inclusive, indeed, for which I apologise. Morgen (woensdag 26 mei) geef ik een presentatie op de expertmeeting voor de ArcheoHotspots over erfgoed en participatie in mijn Pull Tap Archaeology project. De Zoom sessie is gratis bij …

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Amazing shipment from Finnie

It was the school-year of 1985 to 1986 when college-buddies Tom, Pat and Finnie were making long hard days of engineering stuff at Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. As students tend to do, they drank their occasional beers together to stay on top of life. Where and how the idea emerged to create one long chain …

My finds of today

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Look what I found behind my central heating!

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Northwest Anthropology Conference – April 8

Tomorrow Pull Tab Archaeology will present at the Northwest Anthropology Conference! Very exciting, but also working my pants of to get my presentation finished, so I’ll see you there…laterrrrrrrrr 😉 https://www.nwaconference.com/

C-I type pull tabs

C-1 type ring pulls

This week we got two shipments on the same day, one by Attila Deszi (germany) and one by Joske Raymakers (the Netherlands), both containing one or more C-1 type ring pulls. Every now and then people send me these, asking whether they count as pull tabs or not. Well, yes they do, as they are …