Gallery: Toolkit: How One Archaeologist Gears Up for Digs

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    Ginessa Mahar, a lab manager at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Photo: Yvonne Boyd
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    __Fluxgate Gradiometer FM 256__ Photo: Yvonne Boyd
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    __Fluxgate Gradiometer FM 256__ Photo: Yvonne Boyd
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    __Marshalltown Philadelphia Style Pointing Trowel__ Photo: Yvonne Boyd
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    __Panasonic CF30 Toughbook__ Photo: Yvonne Boyd
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    __Geoscan RM15-D Resistance Met__ Photo: Yvonne Boyd
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    __Suunto MC-2DLIN Compass__ Photo: Yvonne Boyd
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