excavate

"Sometimes we make dramatic discoveries and sometimes we excavate an entire bed and say 'hmmm, I've been looking at that thing, what do you think?'"

Amid hordes of gnats they excavate that first fossil, which turns out to be a damaged leg bone.

About a third of the site has yet to be excavated.

A digger and about 40 local men are doing the slow work to excavate and look for bodies under the rubble.

Ai went on a mission to excavate an untold story of punks in the chaotic world of Vietnamese New Wave, one that led her to a deeper cultural truth.