The experts demanded to know whether they had been keeping proper records of their excavations. |
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The excavations have exposed two Norman rubbish pits containing twelfth-century ceramics and animal bones. |
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The discovery came about during rescue excavations on Thames Water's sludge works. |
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David M. Gradwohl and Jerry Sloan shared information regarding the excavations and data recovery at both sites. |
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Peske trenched garden beds at both sites, recovering very little cultural material from these excavations. |
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Archeological excavations show that mound tombs constructed in this time were all very similar and yet widely distributed. |
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In 1987, excavations in the Calle Pureza in Triana, the pottery district of Seville, brought to light a collapsed kiln full of pottery wasters. |
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The town was rather quickly forgotten and left buried until the 18th century, when excavations began. |
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So long as there is a demand for the produce, illegal excavations and the smuggling of antiquities will continue. |
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Many fruits were eaten and seeds from excavations tell us that they also had small apples plums, cherries and sloes. |
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The stones, as revealed by excavations, were in the shape of ornamented half-eggs on squat, quadrangular bases. |
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Coupled with the use of electromagnetic and ultrasonic detectors, excavations to find utilities could be faster and safer. |
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It has been the scene of a number of archaeological excavations and finds during the mid to late nineteenth century. |
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Rolling his eyes, he moved to join Max in his excavations, sighing in exaggerated martyrdom. |
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According to archaeological excavations, an oak forest grew on the monticule. |
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There have been no archaeological excavations to prove or disprove this theory. |
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Now our understanding has been transformed by large numbers of artefacts from excavations and, recently, from detectorists. |
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Many of the scars on the summit and slopes are the result of past excavations. |
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The museum received a little gold flask with rubies found in Sarmatian archaeological excavations. |
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She later went on to conduct her own excavations at the predynastic village of North Sapur, Hemmamiya. |
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The arrangements shall be made in respect of all earthworks including excavations whether for pipe trenches, foundations or cuttings. |
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Recent excavations in the region have uncovered fossilised remains of sea dinosaurs and other creatures that once frequented these watery wastes. |
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Finds from the Roman bath excavations are displayed in their original setting. |
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The excavations produced no diagnostic artifacts but did yield lithic debris and a limited quantity of preserved floral remains. |
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Display cases below include goods sold in the shops and finds from excavations in the area. |
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Some of the discoveries of the archaeologic excavations on site are on display in the museum at the cave exit. |
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The Dublin excavations are amongst the most informative in Europe for the development of successive waterfront quays and revetments. |
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Equipment for the excavations arrived last week including portable buildings, fencing, toilets and generators. |
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Many shopkeepers in the immediate area of the excavations and road closures feared their businesses were suffering as a result. |
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The large pottery vessels known as amphorae are among the most common finds from the Roman period in excavations, both on land and under the sea. |
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The categories dictate how the walls of excavations and trenches are cut back or sloped. |
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Imported materials found during excavations indicate that the oppidum played an important role in trade between Italy and central Gaul. |
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With our trenches and relatively tiny area excavations we do not appreciate the scale of what they must have seen. |
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The growth of black rat populations is being traced through analysis of rat bones from excavations. |
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A raised viewing platform will also allow visitors to the site to watch the excavations being worked on without intruding on the dig. |
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Since excavations began at Loy Yang in 1982, the large numbers speak for themselves with 398 million m3 of coal being won. |
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Limited excavations have opened up gutters and a sump pool used to drain the caverns of groundwater. |
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Earlier excavations revealed stone ramparts, a palisade and waterlogged remains in the ditches, including what looks like a wheel and a ladder. |
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There are important implications revealed from archaeological excavations of these sites. |
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Details on his archaeological excavations on early Maine sites can be found here. |
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Even in the twentieth century, Leonard Woolley referred to his excavations at Warka by the Biblical name of Ur of the Chaldees. |
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But the excavations did reveal that the building had burnt down, so charcoal was available for radiocarbon dating. |
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Modern excavations at Giza have found remnants of copper and even the hearths or kilns used to process the metal into tools. |
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My sixth form tutor gave me days off to help on rescue excavations. |
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The scar created by quarrying the hillside below the Nab is visible from a wide area, but excavations are now going downwards below the level of the surrounding land. |
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They can be configured for linear, square, or rectangular excavations to depths of 30 ft. or more for such uses as pipelines, pits, retaining walls, and bridge abutments. |
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There is a chance to donate to the Silver Jubilee appeal by going to a talk at the school about the excavations which unearthed the Roman villa in the school grounds. |
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The remodelled market is the most recent layer in a rich architectural geology that dates back to a Roman necropolis, unearthed during excavations for the new building. |
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These beautiful fish have been found in railway cuttings, brick pits and building sites across Sydney, particularly back in the days when excavations were done mostly by hand. |
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Recent excavations noted a plaster render on the north face of the Wall. |
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Archeological excavations have yielded many examples of ancient Israelite cups and they are made of cheap durable fabrics. |
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The artifacts recovered from these excavations will give a clearer picture of the technology and particularly their production and use of flint and chert. |
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The disaster was caused by the total collapse of his house in the Rue d' Anjou, undermined by the excavations carried out by the bank next door for its strong room. |
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The excavations haven't found any such images or identifying inscriptions. |
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There is evidence of this destruction throughout the town, though it can only be accessed through rostrum pictures from the archaeological excavations. |
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During the Iron Age, people continued to visit Grimes Graves and several excavations have produced pottery sherds, although, again, no settlements have yet been found. |
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Its rich harmony of flora and fauna, an exotic safari park, Roman and Byzantine excavations and modern tourist facilities today draw tourists in the droves. |
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It is clear from excavations that there was also intensive exploitation of mines and metalworking activity, to produce both weaponry and toreutic works. |
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It had fired jugs, pans, cooking pots and roofing tiles in the 14th century, and similar wares have been found on excavations locally and in adjacent counties. |
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As a boy, he loved to explore the teeming streets of Manhattan and South Bronx, checking out street excavations and rock outcrops in public parks for minerals. |
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The artifacts came from undersea dives and excavations from the area, which has been inhabited for at least 3,000 years. |
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The eastern block excavations, totaling 9 square meters in 2002, yielded three scrapers and four Folsom point fragments from three different points. |
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Further interest in primary-source Roman Antiquity was stimulated by the excavations which revealed Campanian art and architecture to an excited generation. |
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The excavations at Waterstone's uncovered wattle fencing and rubbish pits superbly preserved because of the water-logged conditions under the building. |
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However, recent excavations at Dublin and York have revealed playing pieces shaped like Arabic chess pieces, but with pre-Conquest style Scandinavian style decoration. |
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The field site contains over 45 stone circles, passage graves, standing stones and dolmen tombs and has been the focus of excavations for more than twenty years. |
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Founding the Edinburgh League of Prehistorians, he took his more enthusiastic students on excavations and invited guest lecturers to visit. |
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Renewed excavations at Harappa from 1986 onwards and at several other sites have produced a series of radiocarbon dates. |
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Recent excavations have revealed more of the structure and mosaics, which are now excellently presented. |
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Much of the modern understanding of the Fortress defences has come from extensive excavations undertaken by Leslie Peter Wenham. |
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Evidence showing the worship of eastern deities has also been found during excavations in York. |
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Several sarcophagi were unearthed during this phase of excavations including those of Flavius Bellator and Julia Fortunata. |
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The excavations at Spong Hill, for example, revealed over 2,000 cremations and inhumations in what is a very large early cemetery. |
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Archaeological investigations continue to find tantalizing clues and funding is being sought to continue recent excavations. |
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Ship burials were also practised by Vikings abroad, as evidenced by the excavations of the Salme ships on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. |
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The 1993 excavations revealed that the new western apse was polygonal, and flanked by hexagonal towers, forming a westwork. |
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The best examples of the Bronze Age Greece palace are seen in the excavations at Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos. |
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Although excavations revealed no dating evidence for the feature, further investigation is planned. |
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The Mesopotamian collections were greatly augmented by excavations in southern Iraq after the First World War. |
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As the original material was lost during World War II, in the 1990s, new excavations were conducted. |
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Since 2001, the site of the battle has undergone topographic, geophysical, and metal detector surveys in addition to archaeological excavations. |
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Geologists assess a fault's age by studying soil features seen in shallow excavations and geomorphology seen in aerial photographs. |
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Recent archaeological excavations have revealed the ruins of a cabin in Hafnir on the Reykjanes peninsula. |
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But, as latest excavations have shown, the area around the main court of Burghausen's castle has at least been inhabited since the Bronze Age. |
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The 1972 excavations reached layers that had remained waterlogged and had preserved items that otherwise would have been destroyed. |
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It was established that this was part of the Anglian settlement that had also been identified during earlier excavations. |
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He immediately started on notable excavations on the Roman sites of Segontium on the outskirts of Caernarvon and Brecon Gaer. |
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This work was to form the basis for the excavations that followed at Ffridd Faldwyn by St John O'Neill, the Office of Works Inspector in Wales. |
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Some of the kerbstones, marking the edge of the mound have been identified during excavations. |
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Further excavations were carried out in 2008 by Wessex Archaeology and was featured in the Channel 4 TV programme Time Team. |
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In 2004, a safe was discovered during excavations of a burial trench at the Hanford nuclear site. |
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The site also has a museum that displays objects found by archaeologists during their excavations. |
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The excavations won 'Best Rescue Dig' of the year in the prestigious 2014 Current Archaeology awards. |
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The excavations at Blombos Cave have yielded important new information on the behavioural evolution of modern humans. |
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Birds were perhaps important as a food source, and bones of as many as 80 species have been found in excavations of early Stone Age settlements. |
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Archaeological excavations of this site have uncovered one of the best collections of Saxon artefacts in Europe. |
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Complete excavations have been performed on several wrecks from the Classical, Hellenistic, Byzantine, and Ottoman periods. |
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It contained summary notices of excavations through the area of the Roman Empire. |
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Caesar's report has been partly confirmed by excavations near Geneva and Bibracte. |
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He undertook excavations in Wiltshire from around 1798, funded by Sir Richard Colt Hoare. |
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The application of stratigraphy to archaeology first took place with the excavations of prehistorical and Bronze Age sites. |
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A large majority of the general public is under the impression that excavations are undertaken for money and not historical data. |
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Archaeological adventure stories tend to ignore the painstaking work involved in carrying out modern surveys, excavations, and data processing. |
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Ancient texts and archaeological excavations show the use of perfumes in some of the earliest human civilizations. |
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Lapita pottery shards have been found at numerous excavations around the country. |
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As yet the scale of excavations and surface surveys is too limited to link the literary accounts to archaeometallurgical evidence. |
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Telford travelled to Sweden at that time to oversee some of the more important initial excavations. |
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There have been 2 examples of corpses exhumed from crypts during archeologic excavations in the twentieth century. |
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To date, a total of 20 Kurgan graves have been unearthed at the site, nine of which were discovered during the recent excavations. |
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It was found during the excavations of the German-Egyptian archaeological mission near the Bastet temple at Tell Basta. |
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Lovingly researched, with superbly written biogs of the bands, this could be the first of many excavations of Peel under-culture. |
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Archaeological excavations in Japan show pottery and terracotta remains which depict small dogs of a similar appearance to the Shiba Inu. |
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Their objective was to reach consensus on recent decipherments and excavations from Mayan sites with themes related to water and the sea. |
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He is apaleoanthropologist and paleoecologist who led excavations at the South African fossil sites of Taung and Makapansgat. |
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The excavations themselves ended in April, but work continued in the Giza Field Laboratory through May. |
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The frontal sinus appears during the second year of life as excavations into the diploe of the frontal bone. |
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Before one can start digging excavations in the third ECDA step, Direct Examination, one must know where to dig. |
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On 14 June 2007, during excavations for road building, some of the original stone sleepers used by the railway in 1825 were discovered intact near Lingfield Point. |
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The excavations revealed the survival of superimposed land surfaces, whose layers revealed hearth structures and other characteristic mesolithic artefacts. |
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A Roman civilian settlement was located in the Plas Coch area of Wrexham and excavations have revealed evidence of agriculture and trade with the wider Roman world. |
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Coins dated later than 383 have been found in excavations along Hadrian's Wall, suggesting that troops were not stripped from it, as was once thought. |
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The site thus resembles Barbegal, although excavations in the late 1990s suggest that they may have been undershot rather than overshot in design. |
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Its massive Roman walls still survive, and excavations have revealed a forum, a temple, baths, amphitheatre, shops, and many comfortable houses with mosaic floors, etc. |
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Archaeological excavations in Hyderabad show an Iron Age burial site. |
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Childe's university position meant that he was obliged to undertake archaeological excavations, something he loathed and believed that he did poorly. |
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Stonehaven is the site of prehistoric events evidenced by finds at Fetteresso Castle and Neolithic pottery excavations from the Spurryhillock area. |
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A bequest from Miss Emma Turner in 1892 financed excavations in Cyprus. |
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Overseas excavations continued and John Turtle Wood discovered the remains of the 4th century BC Temple of Artemis at Ephesos, another Wonder of the Ancient World. |
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There is no general public access to the gardens, but guided tours for small groups can be arranged to the gardens and excavations under the basilica. |
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When a Jarl died and was buried, his household thralls were sometimes sacrificially killed and buried next to him, as many excavations have revealed. |
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Later underwater excavations took place between 2013 and 2015 through a partnership between the Oman Ministry of Heritage and Culture and Bluewater Recoveries Ltd. |
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Following the opening of his own excavations, archaeologist Alexander Keiller decided that the best way to preserve Avebury was to purchase it in its entirety. |
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The history of the site before the construction of the henge is uncertain, because little datable evidence has emerged from modern archaeological excavations. |
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He went to work on the excavations at Carchemish in Syria, then on an archaeological dig, staying in the country from 1911 to 1914, learning Arabic. |
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More recent excavations include a series of digs held between 2003 and 2008 known as the Stonehenge Riverside Project, led by Mike Parker Pearson. |
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The early picture of the Indus civilization was largely based on what was revealed by excavations in the two great cities of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. |
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The excavations at Yuanmou and later Lantian show early habitation. |
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The current dig and earlier excavations have also now unearthed about 300 Anglo-Saxon styca coins, which means there may also have been a mint on the site. |
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In 1968 Valoch described some 'flakes of hornstone suggestive of human workmanship' recovered from early Middle Pleistocene scree-deposits in the 1910-1945 excavations. |
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If, during our excavations we happen upon inhumations or cremations, we are required to apply for a licence from the local coroner in order to exhume. |
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Instead, we have a lively mixture of observations on the interpretational challenges and the way newer excavations are getting to grips with these. |
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Roman border defences have become much better known through systematic excavations financed by Germany and through other research connected to them. |
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Although modern archaeological excavations show a Phoenician presence at this location since 1200 BC, neither of these folk etymologies has any historical credibility. |
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There are numerous difficulties with conducting archaeological excavations in the islands, due to their size, settlement patterns and storm damage. |
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Mount Manisty, a large mound of earth on a narrow stretch between the canal and the Mersey northwest of Ellesmere Port, was constructed from soil taken from the excavations. |
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The earliest evidence of glassblowing was found by Roman Ghirshman in Chogha Zanbil, where many glass bottles were found in the excavations of the 2nd millennium BC site. |
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Initial explorations in the James Hall Over Engine Mine led to the discovery of a large shaft named Leviathan, before further excavations revealed the existence of Titan. |
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Several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum. |
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The excavations carried out during the recent restoration, both in the east and in the north, they have surfaced walls of earlier times to the Norman. |
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Extensive excavations followed, which altogether uncovered 200 human fossils from more than 40 individuals including five nearly complete skullcaps. |
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The excavation of the Mary Rose wreck site proved that it was possible to achieve a level of exactness in underwater excavations comparable to those on dry land. |
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Excavations at Cade 9 produced 679 pottery sherds including rims associated with two weakly collared, cord-impressed vessels. |
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Excavations revealed that the site was originally a corral for livestock. |
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Excavations revealed the remains of many individuals buried there over a long period. |
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Excavations show that previous residents from the Ice Age included wolves, bison, rhinos, hyenas and bears. |
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Excavations of shell middens and temporary camps on the shore indicated mainly a hunter-gatherer subsistence. |
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Excavations have shown the remains of not just one wharenui, but possibly three. |
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Excavations revealed a large concrete and brick foundation with a number of fragments of old laboratory equipment. |
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Excavations yielded the remains of at least six adults in the chambers, together with fragmentary remains of children. |
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Excavations revealed a sarsen stone cist containing a cremation burial accompanied by a bronze awl and a jet pendant. |
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Excavations revealed single cremated burials in each, perhaps the members of a local, wealthy aristocratic Roman family. |
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Excavations have uncovered two barracks housing cavalry troops, a forehall, granaries, and the remains of a hospital. |
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Excavations at the site produced over 300 worked flints of early-middle Mesolithic type. |
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Excavations have revealed a complicated history which, to judge from a hoard of metalwork found in the interior, began in the later Bronze Age. |
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Excavations between 1963 and 1965 demonstrated that the ramparts were composed of chalk rubble with timber revetments. |
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Excavations revealed a massive timber gate about halfway along the passage allowing access to be controlled. |
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Excavations at a building site in Walmgate have uncovered walls of the Walker Iron Foundry, a 19th ironmongers based in what is now Dixon's Yard. |
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Excavations in the interior revealed traces of a circular wooden building represented by six concentric circles of postholes. |
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Excavations in the 1960s had recovered gold diadems and other jewelry, a silver vase, glass bowls, coins, and much pottery. |
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Excavations in 1870 revealed a primary inhumation burial accompanied by a food vessel, a flint scraper, and a flint knife suggesting a date slightly later than the henges. |
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Excavations between 1962 and 1971 revealed details of the temple layout which had an inner square cella surrounded by an ambulatory and an outer temenos wall. |
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Excavations found a rough stone chamber-like feature towards the east end with a female burial, bones from various other individuals, and a necklace of dog whelk shells. |
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Excavations uncovered and removed human skeletal remains from the cave. |
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Excavations have revealed a number of buildings, the most notable of which was a large town house with mosaic floors, discovered in 1923 but covered by a later building. |
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Excavations of the ditch have recovered antlers that were left behind and after their age was tested it was revealed that the first henge was built over 50 centuries ago. |
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Excavations on top of the motte in 1969 revealed no traces of medieval occupation, suggesting any evidence had been removed. |
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Excavations of glass beads suggest the city had trading links with Southeast Asia and the Roman world. |
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Excavations in Pompeii show that gardens attaching to residences were scaled down to meet the space constraints of the home of the average Roman. |
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Excavations in advance of an extension to Penrith Cemetery showed that the road survived better at the edges of the field. |
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Excavations in 2007 revealed a Byzantine basilica from the 8th century and parts of the city walls. |
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Excavations found imported fabrics from England, Byzantium, Persia, and central Asia. |
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Excavations at Dmanisi have yielded 73 stone tools for cutting and chopping and 34 bone fragments from unidentified fauna. |
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Excavations were performed in the city by Greeks seeking the tomb of Alexander the Great without success. |
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Excavations found imported fabrics from England, Byzantium, Persia and central Asia. |
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Excavations in the southern Jutlandic town of Ribe hold a special significance for the history of Scandinavian urbanism. |
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Excavations during the 1960s revealed four longhouses, many featuring a central drainage channel, and several smaller houses and barns. |
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Excavations at sites such as Holne Moor have shown that such huts had an interior plank lining. |
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Excavations of the rest of the foundations have since been covered and are not visible. |
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Excavations that overlap the alleged time period of the Xia indicate a type of culturally similar groupings of chiefdoms. |
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Excavations carried out by Bristol University and the Bermuda National Trust discovered the foundations here of the original 1612 governor's house. |
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Excavations at Aguateca uncovered a number of scribal artefacts from the residences of elite status scribes, including palettes and mortars and pestles. |
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Excavations throughout Italy revealed a Neanderthal presence dating back to the Palaeolithic period, some 200,000 years ago, modern Humans appeared about 40,000 years ago. |
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Excavations at the Temple of Zeus, Olympia since 1829 have revealed the largest group of remains, from about 460, of which many are in the Louvre. |
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