22nd May 2005, 09:30 PM
Generally speaking, the bones of the ickle people survive equally as well as those of the adult. When both adult and ickle person are recovered from the same burial environment, there will generally be little difference in the survival standard of the remains. For the most part, ickle people are missed at the point of trowel or, mis-identified during the post-ex phase. This is something that requires attention from Institutes and training establishments. Where an infant has decayed at a faster rate than for example, a contemporary adult in the same environment, this may be due to the gut content of the child at the point of burial.....they are there guys, sad thing is, they do get chucked out with the bathwater on occasion.....