25th May 2007, 11:23 AM
I worked on a Neolithic fish-gutting site in the Netherlands (the one where I got trench foot - ah, the memories..) It was a heavily waterlogged site on thick brown clay, and no stratigraphy was expected or found. The strategy there was simply to go down in 1" spits and wet sieve everything that came out of each layer. In 6 months we found, in additional to all the coprolites etc, one tiny piece of amber and a legless body (an ancient one; not one of the diggers), but the spit method worked for us in this instance...