It really depends on what type of site one is working on. On a historical archaeology site (from Spanish Colonial up through the Anglo period here in the Southwest), ther is something exciting coming up almost every five minutes or so. I enjoy working in the dirt and seeing items that were handled by people over 200 years ago. Unfortunately, the age of explorers doing archaeology has not ended. Thor Heyderdahl is apparently currently excavating a site. I do not believe that he is an archaeologist (though I have been known to be wrong from time to time). 8-) And, alas! It is not only the public and Hollywood that cannot keep paleontology separate from archaeology. many of the CD-ROM catalogs I have looked at over the last year lump the dinosaur CDs in with the archaeology ones. We still have a long way to go in educating the mainstream public. Anita Cohen-Williams; Reference Services; Hayden Library Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1006 Tel: (602) 965-4579 FAX: (602) 965-9169 [log in to unmask] Owner: HISTARCH, SPANBORD, SUB-ARCH