This is for my mother, who had to tolerate human bones and stone tools in her bathtub as I learned about the past as a teenage archeologist. And for making her cry as a middle-aged archeologist who dives in dangerous places because, as she points out, I’ll always be her little boy.
This is also for Ann, who keeps the home fires burning while juggling a career and an often missing-in-action archeologist.
And last, for Beau, my faithful feline companion during many an evening’s writing marathon. It’s not the same without him.