This Project arose out of courses designed to teach students at the University the

　　principles of archaeological methodology and to sensitise them to the complex and

　　frequently surprising links between cultural assumptions and physical realities.

　　Often a considerable discrepancy exists between what people say they do -or even

　　think they do -and what they actually do. In one Garbage Project study none of the

　　Hispanic women in the sample admitted to using as much as a single

　　serving of commercially-prepared baby food, clearly reflecting cultural

　　expectations about proper mothering. Yet garbage from the Hispanic households with

　　infants contained just as many baby food containers as garbage from non-Hispanic

　　households with infants.

　　The Project leaders then decided to look not only at what was thrown away, but what

　　happened to it after that. In many counties waste is disposed of in landfills, the

　　rubbish is compacted and buried in the ground. So in 1987,the Project expanded its

　　activities to include the excavation of landaus across the United States Y-and Canada.

　　Surprisingly, no-one had ever attempted such excavations before.

　　The researchers discovered that far from being sites of chemical and biologicalactivity,theinteriorsofwastelandfillsareratherinactive,with the

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