We wet-sieve all excavated sediments to recover the smallest objects. During the excavation process all objects ts down to 5 mm in size are piece-plotted using total stations. These find are assigned unique id numbers. All objects smaller than 5 mm end up with the sediments in the buckets and are recovered during wet-sieving.

We have set up a wet-sieving station in the garden of our dig house, which also houses our field laboratory. Wet-sieving is done with 1.2 mm mesh size. Each day two to three team members are busy with wet-sieving and drying the residues in the sieves. We do this by storing them on meshes in grey boxes with holes, so that enough air-flow facilitates the drying process.