How-tos
Step-by-step: cataloguing, labelling, photographing, asking a forum for an identification.
- Ask for an identification online— How-to · Community
- Build a want list— How-to · Collecting
- Catalogue a backlog in a weekend— How-to · Curation
- Ceramics: what a thermoluminescence test does and does not tell you— How-to · authentication
- Cleaning an ancient coin without destroying it— How-to · conservation
- Donate a collection to a museum— How-to · Legacy
- Field-collect at a pay-to-dig quarry— How-to · Field
- How to read a flaked point— How-to · identification
- How to spot modern knapping— How-to · fakes
- Photograph a specimen for identification— How-to · Photography
- Prepare a Green River fish plate— How-to · Preparation
- Read an old collection label— How-to · Provenance
- Recording a find with the state or the PAS— How-to · provenance
- Sell a specimen legally— How-to · Market
- Set up a display case: lighting, UV, humidity— How-to · Display
- Ship a fragile specimen— How-to · Handling
- Trade with another collector— How-to · Market
- Writing an ownership history a buyer can check— How-to · provenance