excavation

Examples of excavated

excavated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

A larger town house that was excavated had a dirt-floor entrance area, equipped with a well and a kitchen sink.
Six cabins excavated to date had all been consciously erased from the landscape by the evictors.
Approximately one-third of the extant deposit was excavated (1.25 m3), resulting in the recovery of 170.6 kg of workshop debris, totaling millions of flakes.
In stark contrast, the termites excavated more frequently and produced longer tunnels at the far end of the second choices.
Active burrows, defined by freshly excavated soil surrounding open entrances, were also counted.
The sampling unit was a monolith of 100 x 100 x 40 cm excavated from each quadrat.
The reconstruction was orchestrated through the collapsing of the sites' post-war present and its desired future on to its excavated and reimagined ancient past.
The percentage is even higher for the artifacts from the final occupation layers of eight extensively excavated structures (5.5%).
The large and complex tunnel systems excavated by termite colonies are formed over many years and are constructed as colonies grow.
We gave up this idea quickly, as the building had few similarities to residential buildings being excavated in the valley.
The supposed elite compound is situated on the west side of the excavated area (houses 1, 3, 11/12/13).
Residential sites (16) have been intensively excavated, including dwellings of the ruling elites, nobles, and commoners.
Only two production contexts are currently documented (representing less than 1% of all excavated contexts) and are associated exclusively with elite households.
The next challenge comes with connecting the local with the global expansion of capitalism and with the contemporary local communities whose past is excavated.
All together, 182 sites (577 phase-specific components) were surveyed or excavated.
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