Sorry about Bear.  I remember helping my father garden when I was a kid and
we found a couple points -- maybe that's why I now work mainly with
archaeologists. Who knows, it could have been fate.

At 10:13 AM 4/1/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Well I DO have a backyard and I prefer a shovel; however, all I found were
>the bone remains of my much-loved pet dog Bear who my father figured would
>be left undisturbed buried behind the barn.  He thought wrong.  Very
>disturbing to uncover (as I was a child at the time) when what I really was
>expecting were Native American artifacts from some great village.
>
>Chris