Sentences with phrase «began excavating»

Although the two mounds that look like a saddle have been a focal point in the Changsha area of south - central China for more than 2,000 years, it wasn't until 1971 that archaeologists began excavating these ancient tombs, and what they uncovered was astounding.

Steele, who studies how food sources and environmental change influenced human evolution and migration, was part of the international research team that began excavating at the site in 2004.

Three years ago, a team from the Oriental Institute began excavating a site in Iran's Khuzestan region.

In 1976, the Dominican Republic's Underwater Archaeological Recovery Commission began excavating the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, a Spanish galleon designed to carry quicksilver (mercury) that was used in Spain's gold and silver mines in Mexico.

That's what Huw Groucutt, a paleoarchaeologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and his team were looking for when they began excavating sites in the Arabian Desert more than 10 years ago.

Though no similar mechanisms have yet been found, the Return to Antikythera project has made several discoveries since it began excavating the site in 2014.

The director of the Tinley Park Park District is hoping to begin excavating land, installing drainage pipes and erecting fences this year for a seven - acre dog park about a half - mile west of the Tinley Park Public Library.

Now that the first shovelful of earth has been moved, crews will begin excavating more than 870,000 tons of rock to create the huge underground caverns for the DUNE detector.

Not exact matches

Workers, beginning at opposite ends, met in the middle; and someone, at the point of meeting, placed this inscription in the wall of the tunnel, now excavated:

By Sean Ryan Schneider Excavating Inc. on Monday will begin a $ 1.1 million stimulus project to build a roundabout at the intersection of West North Avenue and North Barker Road in Brookfield.

So we began to excavate.

While excavating the fortress cellars in the 1980s, researchers began finding the teeth and bones of extinct animals from the early Pleistocene — the first clue to the site's prehistoric significance.

A research team led by Marc Lebeau of the European Center for Upper Mesopotamian Studies and Antoine Suleiman of the Directorate - General of Antiquities and Museums (Syria) began to excavate Tell Beydar, a large mound — or «tell» — rising out of the flat steppes near the Khbr River.

And Venezuelans are beginning to excavate the solid tarry deposits of the Oronoco sludge belt, which contains as much as 1 trillion barrels of oil.

And yet we can not excavate some fossil from an Ethiopian hillside, point to a bone, and declare, «This is where language began.»

Through a dialogue encouraged by Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, this year large numbers of Western archaeologists began to excavate Iranian sites for the first time since Iran's 1979 revolution.

The researchers began by identifying Palaeolithic sites in southern England and northern France where high concentrations of handaxes had been excavated - for example at Dunbridge in Hampshire, Swanscombe near Dartford and the Somme Valley in France.

Author and site excavator Thomas Deméré, a paleontologist at the San Diego Natural History Museum, says the team carefully excavated 50 square meters beginning in 1992, and the bones described in the paper were «deeply buried.

Very early farming sites have been excavated on Cyprus, but researchers were not sure whether they represented a small population pushed off the mainland — perhaps by population pressure or competition with other farmers — or the beginnings of a major migration across the sea to Europe.

The image of Carol Anne before the hearth of television and TV's omnipresence in the earlygoing suggest a note of real interest as Spielberg begins to excavate the cancers eating away at the bonds of familial connection that receive a bookend in the picture - framed conclusion of the domestic portion of Catch Me If You Can.

Hoping to defeat Ganon in the same fashion as their ancestors, the King and the Hylian people began working to locate and excavate the Guardians and Divine Beasts.

By the 1960s Heizer the father had left his research on Olmec engineering techniques and had begun helping his son excavate artworks in the Nevada desert.

In the past year, Bernhardt stopped collecting her imagery from source material and began to excavate the depths of her imagination, and the paintings that have resulted are the best of her career.

In the 1990s, she began exploring the potential of plaster reliefs, carved with alpha - numeric or hieroglyphic - like marks and painted in earthy - tones to resemble something excavated from antiquity.

She began microscopically examining 36,000 bone fragments that Cinq - Mars and his team had excavated.

In addition to new mines opening, existing mines have begun tapping into new reserves by opening new portals to the coal reserves and excavating new slopes from the surface to the coal seam.

In the beginning, the fleet consisted of 1 pickup truck and a push mower, to present day Kerr & Kerr has 7 trucks on the road, various lawn maintenance, landscaping and excavating equipment.

As partners excavate the past and learn about one another - their unmet needs and lifelong desires, vulnerabilities, wounds, strengths and resources - they can begin to work cooperatively to bring their unconscious directives into consciousness.

We began with the belief that excavating dark and unspeakable horrors would set trauma survivors free.

They began digging our pool yesterday morning and I had to drag the patio furniture around for a good shot because most of my yard is covered in giant piles of excavated (and weirdly stinky) dirt!