2nd June 2008, 03:20 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by 1man1desk
Posted by Dirty Dave: [quote]I think in my previous posts I did acknowledge that there are circumstances in which investigation of the topsoil/ploughsoil is justified, in varying degrees of detail depending on the site.
As I believe I said in the top post of this thread, in the US we often have nothing except a plowed strata on top of subsoil. At least where I currently work we also tend to have pretty shallow deposits, 60 cm to 1 m below the surface, depending of course on previous land use etc. So we're limited to either disturbed contexts or very occasionally some features which extend into the undisturbed subsoil. If we ever did have sites with intact stratigraphy I suspect we would focus mainly on that, but honestly it's so rare here that documentation is handled on a case by case basis.