There are a number of photographs of artifacts in this forum that really need some sort of context to understand and appreciate their place in the archaeological record.

I have added the following as examples of how to do this - in addition to the "how to photograph artifacts" sticky posted earlier.

Please note that I did indeed break my own request to keep the kilobyte size of the picture as small as possible. I did this so as to maintain as much clarity as possible to these examples.



Notice the relationship of the projectile point to the background. In the midground is a stone-line trail along the base of the ocotillo at top right.




Fish bone located along Ancient Lake Cahuilla, situated at the entrance of a sandstone-ringed house-pit.




A small lithic scatter. The lithics are quartzite, fine-grained metavolcanic, and fine-grained porphyritic metavolcanic. There are 10 flakes; the rest of the material is geologic.