Jeff, et al.

The up-side to digging up your own childhood is that you can 
immediately identify the most mundane piece of junk and your 
students, agency boss, etc.  think you are a genius.

How about picking out the cork, putting the cap on a piece of thin 
cloth, and returning the cork so that you have your bottle cap 
collection.all together in one place?  A very common practice in the 
1930s-40s and probably earlier.

Rick



>Ahh, the existential angst of the archaeologist: I have a colleague 
>who says he will retire permanently when he finds his own childhood 
>in a test pit.  Given the interplay of legality and his age, that 
>could be any day now.
>
>Jeffrey L. Boyer