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