Sentences with phrase «bury dig sites»

Ice covers 99 percent of Antarctica, sudden snowstorms can bury dig sites, and gale - force winds scour the land.

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In the most traditional sense, archaeologists» work might go like this: They'll go to an ancient site, dig a few trenches and systematically record all the artifacts and architectural features they found buried underground.

Archaeologists have dug up thousands of skeletons at early farming sites across the Near East and Europe, and many of them are buried together in ways that might suggest family ties.

Before the war, I accompanied him, along with some foreign archaeologists, to a site deep in the flat desert of southern Mesopotamia, where he was directing a dig at a buried 5,000 - year - old Sumerian city.

Your affected local utility companies will be notified about your intent to dig and will send locators to your dig site to mark the approximate location of buried lines with flags or paint.

For most, they only truly believed when Microsoft got permission to dig up the site in 2014 for a documentary film and pulled out dozens of E.T. cartridges (and confirmed that thousands, perhaps millions, were buried in the dirt).

That burial site was not under permafrost when people were buried there because they wouldn't have been able to dig into it.