Professionals fall into a different category, in that they are in a position to better get their work to an interested audience. However, publication space in journals is limited, and many of an individuals articles may never get published. A professional could then post the article on the web, and use it as a reference, rather than "n.d.", which is terribly irritating to someone who wishes to checkout the particular reference. I would encourage any professional to get a very minimalistic knowlede of html, and start a webpage where their unpublished (or published articles, when available for reprint by author) on the web, to allow better dissemination of information. I also encourage graduates and undergraduates to do the same.

However, some individuals cannot or will not take that step, or may simply not want to deal with the upkeep of a website themselves. This is why I am starting to publish work from individuals on this site, thus allowing individuals to post their work, with minimal effort on their part. I honestly do not anticipate much (if any!) professional work to be submitted, since most individuals with that level of interest would probably simply put them on the web themselves, but for those who do not want to deal with that, this is a forum where such individuals can get their work out to the public. Thus, I expect work from graduates and undergraduates as a majority of what will be submitted. Papers written by laypersons are also welcome, however, they must be in a standard research paper format with appropriate documentations.

The type of work that will be accepted include, but may not be limited to:

• Book reviews.
• Site reports.
• Specimen(s) descriptions.
• Examination of rival theories.
• Logic-based library research explaining a particular problem or feature.

Basically, to be accepted, a piece of work must contain appropriate citation to references, must be coherent and logical, must contain an attempt at objective reasoning (where applicable), must not contain ad hominem attacks or arguments, and must contain a reasonable level of proper grammar and spelling. Work that will not be accepted will include any creationist arguments, work that is biased to the point that the work is not critical of any weakpoints in the subject matter and do not address or ignore relevant alternate theories to at least some degree. For example, a paper that "explains" a mechanism by pointing out everything that could possibly be used to "support" a particular theory, ignores any other evidence, and does not explain the "support". While I doubt that work received from undergraduates would be at the level of professional work, I expect a reasonable effort and level of academic quality in submitted work.

Work can be submitted in one of several formats:

• Submitted as a webpage document, when the author wishes the work to be in a particular format.
• As a Microsoft Word97 document.
• As a basic text document.
• As a wordpad document.

Any photos, diagrams, backgrounds, etc. that are contained in the page must also have the objects saved as a JPEG or GIF image, and sent along with the article. Any tables within the document will slow the time that it will take for the article to be posted on the web (unless the article was sent in html format, with the tables already converted to html). All standard text submissions should be posted within 72 hours, or a message sent to the author indicating the rejection of said submission. The only changes that will be made to any submissions are spelling corrections. Grammar changes will not be made, unless changes are submitted by the author at a later date.

Authors must also include a valid e-mail address, to which questions may be addressed. However, due to the nature of anthropology (that leads to the occasional nut sending incoherent flame mail), any author who wishes to have correspondence "screened" may do so. This will entail the use of an e-mail address provided by this website, with all correspondence reviewed, and only "real" inquiries regarding the work will be sent to the author. This means that the author may either have their e-mail address posted on the web for all to see, or not. I would suggest anyone who is worried about such a problem get a secondary address, that they check perhaps once a week, from "Yahoo!", "Excite", etc. They are free, require no software installation, and are basically annonymous. In this way an author may protect their primary e-mail from any unwanted elements.