The only gold I've found on archaeological surveys/excavations was a melted 0.13g lump on an army base. It was in an historic trash burn, so prob. lost jewelry.

The army wanted to send 2 MPs to the Lab to guard it until transfered to their curation facility. It was worth $54. Actually, that was incorrect. They wanted MPs to guard it 24/7 until it could be transferred to Fort Knox (of course). The boss finally convinced them of how tiny it was, but they still demanded it be stored in the firm's safe until a military courier could be sent to pick it up.

Did some #ceramic prep work today I'd been putting off. We have some white clay & red ochre that I needed to process for natural slips & paints to apply to our #ceramics. I by no means processed as much as I'd like, but it was a start. 1/ #archaeology #pottery The white clay, 1 of 2 we've found in the past few years, isn't ideal, having some small quartz & chert pea gravel, grit & course sand in it. I selected several small pieces after breaking up the main mass. 2/ #ceramics #archaeology #pottery

I've seen people say that archaeologists' communication skills are not the problem with the growing popularity of pseudoscience.

I mostly disagree.

Were you at the "public invited" archaeology conferences in the 1970s to early 1990s?

Did you hear the public comments? 1/ The comments about "Interesting topic, but I wish I could've understood what he was saying." Or, "I should've brought a dictionary." And, "Why do they have to talk like they're walking thesauruses? Can't they speak plainly?" 2/