Mictlantecuhtli

Where was the most unstable hostile territory in which you conducted an excavation?

Oh I bet. That region seems rife for storytelling. At my undergrad I had a professor that had gotten caught up in the 1973 Afghanistan coup d'état and then a year later the Cypriot/Turkish split of 1974.

Isn't that still classified? Or is that the fasted unclassified speed?

Would people be more accepting of TSA if it weren't government run and instead a feature of the airlines/airport?

Have you looked into the pre-hispanic beliefs and knowledge of hummingbirds during your research? I ask because the hummingbird was revered among people like the Mexica (aka Aztec) and Purepecha (aka Tarascan). I know among the Mexica they would capture enough hummingbirds to make feather cloaks from hummingbird feathers. While people may look down on folk beliefs, I can't help but wonder how much Mesoamerican peoples got correct through their own interaction with these birds.