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Personally I doubt I'd give anything to archaeologists/palaeontologists unless its an articulated skeleton or human remains, or something that I cant effectively collect myself. I am in contact with the head of my local museum and Ive taken him out to my sites a few times and he is aware of what I find. My old man is a professor and I just know of way too many stories of stuff being given to researchers and it gets thrown in a drawer and forgotten. Some entire skeletons have been forgotten in warehouses for decades. Many researchers will spend their entire lives collecting something and after they retire, the entire collection literally goes in the trash becayse there is no storage space for it. Just report your finds and send in situ pictures with GPS. There is so little money in archaeology and palaeontology that they dont have funding to find their own sites and usually rely on amateurs.
