excavation
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I love that you validate gossip as part of the excavation process for making sure you’re having the right fight with the right information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
"The study was to be conducted before the excavation and digging", not after, said local artist Salwa Mahmoud.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
It culminated in the excavation of a landfill site at Milton, Cambridgeshire, which lasted several months but found nothing.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Using microscopy, the researchers classified thousands of phytoliths collected from two excavation pits measuring 1.5 m and 2.3 m deep.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The pair made their way eastward between the basketball pavilion and the horseshoe-shaped excavation that served as the campus football stadium.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
The council said local residents would have opportunities to get involved in further archaeological excavations and activities as the project continues.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Those excavations were designed to determine how people collected and used plants inside the cave in the distant past.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
"Our excavations may tell us something about the end of Urartu," he said, noting that researchers have found "the traces of a very powerful earthquake."
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
"For 60 years, he has lived amid the excavations and introduced thousands of visitors to the history of Urartu."
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
In carrying out their underwater discoveries and excavations, Bass and his colleagues introduced groundbreaking inventions and techniques that greatly advanced how marine archaeology is conducted.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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