Actually, aside from creating many Beer bottle middens on Santa Catalina, the Islands are our colleage's provinance. In the spirit of Oddyseus, I was (honorably) discharged and began walking inland with an oar. I stumbled upon an archaeological excavation. Immediately 3 grad students wrote copious monoliths ( complete with footnotes) with three interpretations on what it was. I knew I had found an academic pursuit worthy of my measured, introspective and analytic intellect ;O)