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excavation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mining |
| Type of | production |
| Has types | strip mining, placer mining, opencast mining |
| Derivation | excavate |
excavation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | archeological site, dig |
| Type of | land site, site |
| Derivation | excavate |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dig, digging |
| Type of | creating by removal |
| Derivation | excavate |
there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton.
Examples of excavations
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Three more villas were uncovered when the first official excavations were begun.
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On 9 November 1845, Layard, with a team of local tribesmen, started excavations.
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Early 20th century excavations at the site had revealed nothing earlier than ca.
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Evans found 3,000 clay tablets during excavations and worked to transcribe them.
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Excavations at the necropolis south of the town yielded several tomb structures.
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The excavations by Flinders Petrie revealed that this sector included armouries.
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Further excavations have since been undertaken by historians and archaeologists.
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Excavations revealed that a large number of statues had embellished the columns.
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Forty timbers were found in excavations near the Pyramid of Senusert I in Lisht.
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- The act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
- Dig: the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig"
- A hole in the ground made by excavating
- Mining: the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
- (excavate) recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold"
- (excavate) remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
- The term archaeological excavation has a double meaning.
- In medicine, excavation has two meanings: *the act of hollowing out *the space hollowed out, or a natural cavity or pouch
- (Excavate) The excavates are a major kingdom of unicellular eukaryotes, often known as Excavata. The phylogenetic category Excavata contains a variety of free-living and symbiotic forms, and also includes some important parasites of humans.
