Regan Myriam Lee writes: "...forgive me for my ignorance, but *why* is the Harrison Ford character "Indianna Jones" considered a "bad" scientist?" I remember going to see "Indianna Jones and the Last Crusade" with the rest of the crew when I was in archaeological field school. Don't get me wrong- I love those movies, but we laughed through the whole thing. If my memory serves me correctly, didn't he stomp through a bunch of skeletons just before setting their tomb on fire? Or maybe it was the bad guys who started the fire. Anyway, *real* archaeologists carefully measure and map *every* object they find; they don't just stomp through everything else to get to the "good stuff." I never saw Indy with a tape measure or a notebook. I don't think I ever even saw him with a trowel! Ostensibly, archaeologists are looking for the information that objects can give them, they're not hunting for buried treasure. For a more accurate depiction of the archaeological method you might check out the "Calvin and Hobbes" strip in which Calvin concludes that "Archaeology is the most mind-numbingly boring job on the planet." Sometimes it is. :) Linda Seguin Science Library University of Georgia