standards for treatment of human remains abroad

[sniper]

am happy to try and put together a document for specialists explaining site procedure, but as to hosty's point about why skeletons have no fingers, that is usually down to inexperience and lack of anatomical knowledge by excavators who think that the metacarpals (bones that form palm of hand) are the fingers. I have recently been looking at disarticulated human bone from a site, and lots of the bone from grave fills has been fingers and toes which will probably belong to the skeleton in that grave. I can't remember off hand if any of the guidelines point out the need to watch out for small bones that may have wandered, but it certainly needs to be considered.

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