Have you ever encountered metal detector enthusiasts, bottle hunters, or looters while working on a site? Any ideas for communicating, educating, and collaborating with non-archaeological diggers? Would you like to know how other people handle these situations? Or what professional organizations have to say about the latest TV digging craze? 

Drop by and share your experiences, or send them in to be read, at the informal "Brainstorming Lunch: Responses to Digging in America" session at the CNEHA 2012 meeting in Newfoundland (conference site: http://www.mun.ca/archaeology/cneha/). This session will begin with a viewing of the American Digger TV show. We will also review the responses by CNEHA and other professional archaeological organizations to these programs. During an informal moderated discussion, we encourage you to share your own positive, negative, and ambivalent stories from the field. We will conclude with a brainstorming session. We aim to identify themes, misunderstandings, legal and ethical issues, and practical grass-roots responses to the digging phenomenon. 

This working session is organized by the new CNEHA Subcommittee on Collaborative Preservation. Contact Patricia Samford ([log in to unmask]) or Christina Hodge ([log in to unmask]) off list for more details or to send in a story.