Why do archaeologists use flotation?

A. to identify regional settlement patterns
B. to recover very small remains like fish bones and seeds
C. to control for the location of artifacts in three-dimensional space
D. to establish relative chronologies
E. to study the processes of stratigraphy


Answer: B

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