I found a picture of me from 1980. Let's have a picture thread

[frogmarch]

95. Thanks. :-) It's a

mammoth skull, but I didn’t excavate it. I was cleaning it and applying preservatives to it. College students and paying volunteers from Earthwatch excavated it during one of the summer digs, and it was part of my job to clean and preserve the excavated specimens. Most of the bones were exhibited in situ, but some of the smaller, like ribs and disarticulated vertebrae, etc., were removed to excavate beneath them. At first I took the specimens that were removed home to work on them, especially in the wintertime when it was too cold to work on site, and then when the Mammoth Site purchased a house I could use for a lab, I worked on them there. I was the only year-round preservationist at the time.

Although it’s hard to distinguish, in this picture is a complete adult mammoth skeleton lying on its side, with one of the tusks at the bottom left-hand side of the picture. The small skull and tusk pointing toward me are of a juvenile mammoth.