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If some of the software guys can offer a Frequently Asked Question department there's no reason the Pecos can not do the same. If you should have one that the Museum can help you with, contact us by e-mail.

Or a short visit at the curators office.

With over thirty years experience and at least thirty thousand beads, bones and pottery shards to poke among, we may have some data that can help.

  • To find an answer to a query below just point and click and our local hunter will run down the curator. Remember there is no guarantee he knows what he is talking about or can help.

  • "BP", what is this term?

  • Why the need, for museums, archeologist or anthropologist?

  • How do I pick where to find artifacts?

  • What do I look for?

  • Can I make a difference?

  • How rare are most early man artifacts?

  • What is the difference between "early man" and the American Indian?

  • How do you place a date on a artifact you see for the first time? What tools do you use for dating?

  • Can you talk to man of the past?

  • Your paper on parallels compared the old world (Europe, Asia and Africa) with the new world (the Americas), have you seen parallels even among Americas early man?

  • Are all sites in north America the same?

  • Can you suggest how I can learn what to look for?

  • Did early man travel and trade with others.

  • How did early man live that was so different than that of the later American Indian?

  • Do you ever find modern items mixed with early man artifacts? How can that happen?

  • I think I have a habitation site on my land, what should I do?

    A small word to help. "FILL". Your mess, you clean it.

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or it's back to the lab.