Tried sifting a creek site in Idaho with a window screen and found 12 tiny flakes my trowel missed

Jason Lewis · 2026-09-23T00:55:03.936344+00:00

So I grabbed a $6 window screen from the hardware store in Twin Falls and re-sifted the spoils from my test pit last month, and it turned up a dozen micro-debitage flakes that my trowel and bucket screen skipped, which tells me I was probably missing half the story at that site, and now I want to know if anyone else here has tried this and gotten similar results or if it is just overkill.

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