Sentences with phrase «excavated area»

The excavated area just that is just visible inside and to the right is where the thermal storage tank lives.

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.

Keep it on the level — Your excavated area should be relatively flat or level so that water can disperse evenly over the surface.

The instrument measured roughly the same tiny concentration of water (about 2 percent) in the surface soils as it did in the freshly uncovered soil, and the newly excavated area did not dry out over time — as would be expected if moist subsurface material were uncovered.

When Bishop Macarius got permission from Constantine to excavate the area, he apparently knew where to dig.

Excavating an area closer to the shore, they found many artifacts that likely came from the Begoña, including a cast - iron cannon, a brass wine spigot and examples of contraband precious metals.

Not exact matches

Eloth was near Ezion - geber, the site of a commercial enterprise of Solomon, whose facilities for refining copper in the area have been excavated.

Landfill Sending material to an area of land or an excavated site that is specifically designed and built to receive wastes

He said the proposal called for an area that had been used as an ice skating rink to be excavated.

The area is near the park's southwest side where two soccer fields also have been excavated.

But while archaeologists have identified many sites in the Chicago area, relatively few have been systematically excavated since there are too many sites for archaeologists to keep up with, she said.

«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.

To help clear up the evolution of farming in the West, the investigators compared genetic information from Europeans living during the Neolithic period (a.k.a. the late Stone Age, 10,000 - 4,000 years ago; the chronology varies between Europe and the Near East) with that from nine individuals excavated from two ancient settlements in Anatolia (the area between the Black and the Mediterranean Seas).

Their finds include the world's largest duck - billed dinosaur, the largest dinosaur skull ever excavated, and approximately 60 separate partial remains of Triceratops, the three - horned behemoth common to this area of North America at the time.

One afternoon while the students ate lunch, University of Pisa archaeologist Antonio Fornaciari gave a tour of the trenches, pointing to a freshly excavated stone wall beneath an asphalt parking lot in area 4000 (see graphic).

The next day, Poinar knelt head down over a trench in area 2000, trying to excavate a jaw with teeth protruding from the wall of the pit.

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.

About 10 percent of all ceramic vessels excavated from these sites had been imported from the Valley of Mexico and other areas.

The 4 - square - meter area of the bone bed already excavated has yielded 10 skulls and hundreds of remains, suggesting that the creatures became concentrated in one area and then died when the lake they inhabited dried up, the researchers say.

They knew that humans had been in the area at least 35,000 years ago, the age given to ocher crayons and ocher - smeared stone tools they had excavated from the Leang Burung 2 rock shelter nearby.

«There is huge potential for the area where we excavated.»

A 790,000 - year - old hominid settlement in northern Israel, excavated by archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, appears to have been divided into distinct functional spaces, with a hearthside food preparation area and a spot dedicated to flint toolmaking.

Mundorff, a forensic anthropologist, wanted to learn how the team excavated and exhumed graves, and then sorted and identified co-mingled human remains — her area of expertise.

To help solve the mystery, an international team of researchers investigated 215 bones previously excavated from 11 sites in southern Iberia, in an area known as Spain today.

A rectangular area around the monolith was excavated out to see if it was only the «upper part of some buried structure.»

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.

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He'll dig, and he doesn't care whether he excavates a secluded area by the fence or your lovely new flower garden.

There are about eight different Mayan sites in the Bacalar Chico area two of which, San Juan and Chac - balam) have been partially excavated and have been made somewhat accessible by trails.

Unlike many excavated ruins where the majority of the visible structures are pyramids and large royal burial sites, Caracol is large and well - explored enough that you can still see examples of residential areas, agricultural areas and gathering places, although the buildings that were once there haven't always survived.

You will see the three stages of the excavation of this late Inca - town: the excavated buildings and constructions; the ruins currently in the process of excavation and finally the unexplored areas and terraces with the secrets they may hold of this last refuge of the dying Inca empire.

The original site covers an area of about 5 square miles, but the excavated and restored part of the site is only about a mile square.

While we have not excavated at these sites, surface collections yielded sherds of high quality, imported pottery and artifacts such as basalt grinding stones and obsidian blades from remote areas.

The artist intends the sculpture, sited in the remote wooded area of the lower grounds at Laguna Gloria and recalling petrified wood in its textures, to be an «excavated relic or fantastical object,» one that is «more sci - fi than scientific.»

Even more ambitious, however, is the government's plan to reclaim and construct a land area the size of New York's Central Park at 5 - to - 10 meters above sea level, allowing citizens from outer atolls to resettle on this new elevation - fortified land, excavated from the sea on Funafuti Atoll.

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

Remodeling this topmost area may be more cost - effective and easier than excavating a dark, damp basement or building out new square footage.

By excavating down they have created a wonderful high - ceilinged, open - plan kitchen with impressive island unit, breakfast bar and dining area with plenty of space for food preparation and entertaining.