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earthwork

[urth-wurk] / ˈɜrθˌwɜrk /


NOUN
levee
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French artist Marguerite Humeau chose an unusual site for her 2023 earthwork “Orisons.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

Land art in Malibu gets a second chance, as the artist Lita Albuquerque redraws her “Malibu Line,” an ultra-vivid blue earthwork that connects earth, ocean and sky.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

In a separate, cavernous space, large mounds of earth displaced by the digging materialize like a massive earthwork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023

Next, the researchers used computer modeling to analyze known earthwork sites and predict their spread across the Amazon.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023

One of the mounds at Cahokia is believe to be the largest earthwork in the Americas to have been built before the European invasions.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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