brainstorming, take 3 (or so)

Ask me your dumb questions about archaeology!

(I'll even answer them. But what I really want to know is what people who don't know about archaeology don't understand. Since I learned all the terminology in about the first month I was working in the field, and have forgotten what the basic questions are.)

---and in other news, I (knock on wood) never have to go back to the nasty site again. I just get to go in to the horribly dusty lab and get blacklung...