standards for treatment of human remains abroad

[sniper]

know exactly what you mean Hosty. Its a common get out clause to say that soil conditions mean they has been no preservation of skeletal material and that juvenile skeletons have survived less well than the adults. Juvenile material survives to exactly the same extent as adult, but it would help if it got recognised as being human juvenile material in the first place rather than as rabbits or mice (as happened on one site I was on, until I found a baby in the washed animal bone). If juveniles are being misidentified and adults not dug properly, what is this doing to site interpretations? If I hear the phrase "the children are being buried elsewhere" one more time I may hit someone. Better check through all that "animal" bone if I were you.

++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++