Sentences with word «excavated»

In June a team of paleontologists identified the oldest example of such symmetry in a group of fossils excavated from a 600 - million - year - old rock quarry in southern China.

Fletcher was temporarily blocked from excavating in Egypt.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is quietly exploring the possibility of excavating dirt from Addicks and Barker reservoirs, reviving an oft - discussed proposal that would allow the reservoirs to hold more...

Scientists in their preliminary findings suggest signs of life from under Mars» surface may not survive in rocks excavated by some meteorite impacts.

In excavating sites in a long - inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds — how various occupying civilizations layer over one another during the site's continuous use over millennia.

Proper steps must be taken when excavating for foundations to ensure that the area is correctly prepped for construction.

After being evicted from his studio to make way for a new property development, London designer Paul Cocksedge reacted by excavating material from the floor to produce a new series of furniture.

Archaeologists excavating at the sprawling Buddhist complex of Bhamala Stupa, north of Islamabad, at first thought they were digging up yet another stone wall.

The rich, painterly textures and sober use of color in his «matter paintings» lent a moving solemnity — the critic John Russell referred to their «seignorial dignity» — to works that «seemed to have been not so much painted as excavated from an idiosyncratic compound of mud, sand, earth, dried blood and powdered minerals.»

Recently excavated by a team from the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, the Bureau of Land Management and the University of Louisiana, the trackway includes 117 footprints thought to represent a number of adults as well as juvenile and infant mammoths.

Clay, marl and material excavated on site are mixed and compacted in a formwork and then layered in blocks to build the walls.

Scientists suggest signs of life from under Mars» surface may not survive in rocks excavated by some meteorite impacts.

While excavating at the limestone cave of Liang Bua in 2003, archaeologists found bones from diminutive humans unlike any people alive today.

This would enable them to identify the specific conditions under which organic material may escape the destructive effects of blasts — even when excavated from deep underground by violent events.

The film's background is extensively excavated with an early presentation reel called Fleabie, the original story treatment and pitch boards, character designs, concept art and color script, as well as production tests.

Xunantunich was the first excavated Mayan site in Belize that was opened for the public.

We killed god with theory of «Natural Selection», by excavating fossils, by inventing all kinds of gadgets that god did not want us to have.

Tikal: The Tikal ruins in the Petén district of Guatemala are, in excavated area at least, larger and more spectacular than any Maya site in Belize.

Previously excavated stone tools, which researchers think were made by H. floresiensis, were dated to between 190,000 and 50,000 years old.

Arm and leg bone measurements were also obtained from previously excavated skeletons of women who lived in Central European farming villages between around 7,300 and 1,200 years ago.

Recently excavated artifacts from Pakistan have inspired a reevaluation of one of the great early urban cultures — the enigmatic Indus Valley civilization

In 2013, the Russian - Belgian team excavated many dinosaur fossils, as well as plant and insect fossils.

These media form a threshold through which Jasper explores the dissonance between imaginary and fragmented cinematic space and the physical experience of architecture, and in his work he also excavates history through postcolonial and experimental anthropological lenses.

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.

The pyramid is not excavated completely but certainly stands as an example of the Mayan fashion.

Gold Mine is experiential, producing sensations of movement through sloping passageways of excavated earth.

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.

In 1993 we returned to excavate houses.

They learn that its Norwegian crew discovered an alien craft imbedded in the ice and, to their everlasting regret, also excavated what they thought was an alien corpse.

This statement resonates with the work of Geoffrey Farmer who excavates multifarious cultural histories, from the life of Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention, photographs in Life magazine between 1935 and 1985, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame or Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire, to the figure of Aloysius Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street.

Altun Ha was one of the largest Mayan trading hubs and is the country's most excavated ruin with more than 250 buildings for visitors to view.

Our earliest date comes from a Namibian cave, where excavated floors contained painted slabs between 19,000 and 26,000 years old.

Of the more than 130,000 bones excavated between 2005 and 2013, only 5 percent could be identified as a specific animal.

Hundreds of thousands of artifacts, including intricate and elaborate hand - woven baskets excavated between 2007 and 2013 in Huaca Prieta, reveal that early humans in that region were a lot more advanced than originally thought and had very complex social networks.

To this aim Meyer and his team collaborated with a large network of researchers excavating at seven archaeological sites in Belgium, Croatia, France, Russia and Spain.

«Fish living in groups may be able to increase and maintain considerably larger excavated cavities per capita compared to solitary living fish.

Human remains excavated by archeologist Phil Orr from Arlington Springs on Santa Rosa Island in 1959, recently yielded a radio - carbon date of over 13,000 years of age.

Red - cockaded woodpeckers carry spores of wood - decaying fungi on their beaks, wings and feet, which could make it easier for them to excavate cavities

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

Today, many dugouts are created by excavating into hillsides, using modern tunneling machines.

The newly excavated ancient Mayan site of Caracol is located deep in the Chiquibul Rainforest.

Manhattan is at sea level so excavating 1000 feet down is basically like building a gargantuan swimming pool in the middle of the city.

This summer, project contractors were hard at work excavating contaminated soil from the dump sites and replacing it with clean soil.

Flores is well - known for its proximity to Tikal — the largest excavated Mayan site.