28th May 2005, 10:20 AM
Hi and welcome Arkybones! The small size of new-born baby bones is simply no excuse. The grain of sand parallel seems a bit over theatrical but, I see your point. In my view, there is no excuse for missing Human remains-in minature or otherwise. In my experience, hand/feet bones are missed through a variety of reasons including ignorance, arrogance and bloody-mindedness in commerical archaeology.Size does not mean everything! An excavator would spend time picking about to extract small finds that shine- a paradigm shift in the perception of field archs` would help-as would a project manager that writes into the project design, a paragraph or two about identifying sub adults during the project. Keep it coming Arky!