excavate

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In 2022, Sereno returned with a 100-person team and 64 Nigerien guards to excavate the "earth-shattering site".

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

“But Georgi kept wanting to get underneath it, to excavate it. Explore the fire, explore the trauma. She came in and said, ‘This show is about identity.’

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026

Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who led the painstaking 20-year effort to excavate and study the skeleton, initially identified Little Foot as Australopithecus prometheus when it was formally introduced in 2017.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

Once researchers could easily search through a century of paper, they could excavate gems that were buried in the corporate archives—like Moylan’s original memo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026

Each year, Japanese archaeologists excavate over 10,000 digs and employ up to 50,000 field workers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond