Sentences with phrase «excavate houses»

In July, archaeologist Tristram Kidder of Washington University in St. Louis and his Chinese colleagues discovered evidence of even older agricultural fields beneath the excavated houses and a larger buried town about two miles away.

Every excavated house yielded large quantities of ceramic artifacts used in the hand spinning of cotton.

By excavating the houses of both rich and poor, we have found that provincial society was far more complex than previously thought.

Not exact matches

In 1993 - 94, for example, archaeologists excavating at Tell Dan in modern Israel discovered two fragments of an inscription that refers to «the house of David.»

We're literally excavating in the houses of the common people.

Much of it is a featureless sea of city - built, 12 - story apartment houses, the foundations of which were crudely excavated by German bombs during the Blitz.

«There's a beautiful open - space area just to the north that I can see from my house,» he says, «They came through and excavated a pipeline, and there's still this long skinny scar that goes across the landscape.

The long dead can not consent to be excavated, studied and displayed, but neither can they consent to be removed from their graves to make room for roads and houses.

Two graduate students in rubber overalls hose 700 - yearold soil off unidentified excavated objects near a midden downhill from a collapsed house.

Mellaart excavated 200 houses in four seasons; Hodder, with a much larger team, has uncovered 3 houses in six seasons.

For whatever reason, the people who lived in the houses excavated at Yautepec all used obsidian tools from five different geological sources.

Of the seven houses excavated at Yautepec, five were small dwellings of commoners, which had an average size of 26 square meters.

Although archaeologists had collected surface artifacts from cities in the Valley of Mexico, no one had excavated any urban Aztec houses.

At Palaikastro, in the island's far northeastern corner, MacGillivray and his colleague Hugh Sackett have excavated seven blocks of a Minoan town of perhaps 5,000 inhabitants, their plastered and painted houses arranged in a network of tidy paved and drained streets.

The late archeologist Junius B. Bird was the first to excavate Huaca Prieta in the late 1940s after World War II and his original collection is housed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

The team of researchers is also excavating simple houses, alleys and water pipelines, which promise to give major insights into the everyday life of the people and the city's organisation, according to Dr. Blömer.

Excavating that sort of treasure in an old journal has given me new stories: my novella «Mr. Bedford,» about a young American living in a London boarding house was completely the gift of my journals from the early 1960's.

«Foundation cracks, bulges, and other irregularities can be extremely expensive to repair, and may even involve excavating the soil around the house to stabilize the walls,» says Welmoed Sisson, a home inspector with Inspections by Bob in central Maryland.

Other Roman remains include the ruins of the Grotte del Pilato, caves excavated along the shores of the port town by the Romans to house fish hatcheries to feed the local populace.

The current structure is built in the footprint of an actual prehistoric house excavated in the 1960s.

Some of the excavated findings are housed in a museum here in Challapampa.

The underground house took a decade to excavate by its owner and was completed in 1976.

His painstakingly crafted organic forms find a home inside the walls of houses, appearing to have been excavated from the drywall and wallpaper.

Housed deep within Villar Rojas's post-apocalyptic vision is another reference to our apparent need to layer up and eventually excavate the past.

As a kind of performative act — a «maintenance action,» as he called it — he not only cleaned the house but also removed window trim and baseboards, sanded the floors, and preserved cracks and discolorations in the walls with polyurethane, to expose the house's skeleton and excavate its history.

[6] Alan W. Moore with the artists of the Real Estate Show, «Excavating Real Estate,» in Imagine: A Special Issue of the House Magic Review for «The Real Estate Show Revisited,» ed.

All of the excavated earth was used to build a hill around the house (except for the South wall).

Giant shovels excavate the bitumen and load it onto giant dump trucks the size of small houses, which transport the bitumen to an extraction plant where heat and water separate the bitumen from the sand.

While they were there, they also excavated both sides of the house, re-sprayed the foundation with waterproof material, and checked the foundation drain leading underground from the downspouts to the rain garden.

When the builders of houses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries wanted to do something cost - effective with the clay soil excavated from digging a home's foundation, they had the workers mix it with lime and used it to plaster the inside basement walls.

At the time your house was built, contractors mixed excavated soil with lime and coated the inside of basement walls with it.

Edmondson liked the idea of the house «hugging the ground, fitting into the slope of the land», and excavated two separate levels to achieve that.

In addition to the requisite plumbing and electrical updates required on an 80 - plus - year - old house, other extensive renovations included excavating a basement to create additional studio and storage space as well as leaving no wall untouched — literally.

«The only way to increase its size was to insert rooms underneath» — to stretch the main house vertically, which they did by excavating the slope and raising some ceilings.

«Whether you are converting a cellar below the house or digging out part of the front or back garden to create the new basement, consider excavating an extra 200 — 300 mm to increase the floor to ceiling height of the new space» advises Alan.

Running the external staircase from outside the excavated basement right up to the upper level not only creates another means of transitioning the different storeys in the house, but also provides an additional terrace on the ground floor as well as the courtyard garden down below.