excavate
Excavation on the site is likely to continue for several years.
Recent excavations reveal that the ancient city of Pompeii suffered several devastating landslides.
His boyhood memories included the excavation for the railway tunnel to Union Station.

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Examples of excavation

excavation
Their excavations did not reveal a definitive chronological position for this construction.
All excavations were filled back and levelled to prevent permafrost degradation.
After the burials were removed, excavation continued downward through the fill to the lip of the pit.
Neither the 2002 nor subsequent 2004 excavations revealed any evidence of a formal kiln.
Unless the contrar y is stated, objects are not assumed to have been found in situ, nor in their present situs, nor during excavation.
Excavation was unnecessary as there was nothing new to learn.
Test excavations were conducted at 37 sites, each of which was selected by a stratified random sampling strategy.
Perhaps the results of future excavations will shed some light on our discovery and these questions.
Initially, even the practical organization of the excavations, with large numbers of excavation workers, remained unaltered.
These dual perceptions echoed the concerns of the forensic excavations.
The pair of studies represents the reports on several campaigns of surface survey and selective excavation, undertaken between 1984 and 1990.
Developers can be obliged to have surveys and excavations carried out at their own expense in areas considered to be of archaeological interest.
As a result of the condition in which most houses are found during excavation, there is limited direct evidence for the use of internal space.
They include elaborate reconstructions of landscape genesis, systematic regional surveys and large-scale excavations of settlements and cemeteries.
The top por tion of much of the rubble from this building was visible on the sur face prior to excavation.
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