Sentences with phrase «not excavated»

Thus far, 12 pyramids and 25 plazas have been found at El Pilar (not excavated).

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.

Island foxes give birth to their young in simple dens, which are usually not excavated by the foxes themselves.

The late - twentieth - century epic is built atop all our inherited versions of Homer» not excavated, like some linguistic equivalent of Schliemann's Troy, but built upon: a new - made Iliad in English verse.

Archaeologists do not excavate «facts»; they excavate material remains — city ruins, wall foundations and potsherds.

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

And the same technology works to make sure your dog isn't excavating the interior of your couch.

He found that he could not excavate whole, self - contained artifacts of an inorganic past, but could know the past only indirectly.

Not exact matches

For example, it is no use to schedule the asphalt contractor to install the driveway if the excavating contractor has not completed the rough grading.

Why didn't the fact that the copper mines they were excavating that were dated to the time of Solomon (who used copper for the temple) get any kind of media play?

Our shared past can only be excavated by shared endeavor, by a painful and constant process of reeducation and rediscovery; in that process, we start from where we are, not where we wish we had stayed.

You need facts from the bible... try Sodom and Gomorra... These ancient cities have been excavated and scientists have found physical evidence of the cities being burned by fire, not just any fire either, the fire started on the roof tops and burned faster than any fire on earth.»

You need facts from the bible... try Sodom and Gomorra, kinda the direction our country is headed in... These ancient cities have been excavated and scientists have found physical evidence of the cities being burned by fire, not just any fire either, the fire started on the roof tops and burned faster than any fire on earth.

The location of the stadium of Smyrna is known, but has not been excavated.]

Its Pauline authorship is these days not seriously doubted; its date of composition is more clearly determined than perhaps any other book of the New Testament; the origin of the church is recounted in Acts; the geographic site of Corinth is known and excavated; the integrity of the text is not widely challenged; text - critical uncertainties are few.

This reminds me, I need to excavate my freezer too, although I'll admit, I do not have the diverse forgotten treasures that you found in your freezer.

He was saying he has to muck it up, dig deep, excavate why his team that has strode to the last two Super Bowls suddenly can not finish and has fallen to 2 - 3.

And you're excavating those triggers, so you don't get upset so often.

«Typically we don't,» said Gregory Reesman Jr., president of Reesman's Excavating...

«Some of the woodpeckers will use this kind of drumming - type maneuvering to excavate a nest, they'll make little caches in a tree to store food, or some of them will actually forage that way.

Fossil mussel shells excavated more than a century ago at an H. erectus site on the Indonesian island of Java include a shell with engravings of an M shape, two parallel lines and a reversed N shape, the scientists report December 3 in Nature.

«What is most likely the case is that the parent body [of this family] was water - ice - rich, was broken up, and now the surface of its largest fragment, Themis, has been impact - excavated, revealing the ice that was once deep in a larger object,» says Britney Schmidt of UCLA, who was not affiliated with Campins's study.

If the impact did excavate mantle material, and it doesn't contain olivine, that would have substantial implications for models of how the Moon was formed, Moriarty said.

The dramatic site of Brak had been briefly excavated by Mallowan in the 1930s, but Christie found it not to her liking, since rainfall was too sparse for the flowers she loved to grow; they split their time with another ancient mound farther north with a slightly wetter climate.

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.

Not only have he and his team been able to select the most promising sites for on - the - ground fieldwork, but they can also use the images to reconstruct the Garamantes» regional footrpint — something that would have been very hard to do by excavating one site at a time.

No question, it is the Bronze Age wreck we excavated at Uluburun, Turkey, not far from Cape Gelidonya.

The vessel — the first completely excavated underwater — was carrying Near Eastern plaques, copper ingots, and other goods from the East to Greece, not vice versa.

And the arduous work of excavating and plastering the fossil was not the end of the saga, Martill recalls: «Building plaster's got clay in it and takes ages to dry, so we looked for firewood — which is not easy to find in a desert — dug a trench on either side of the bone and lit fires to encourage it to dry.»

We sought to bring new tools for chemical analysis with us into the field, so we can do obsidian sourcing as we excavate or survey an archaeological site, not wait until months or years later to learn the results.

(Tell Chuera is, however, older than the levels so far excavated at Tell Beydar, and so a direct comparison can not be made.)

We could not go into the whole story behind the misnamed Apatosaurus fossil excavated by Othniel Marsh in the 1870s, so one of our sources suggested we call it «the first named Brontosaurus» — which it certainly is, whatever the correct designation.

The new find isn't old enough to prove that the first Americans came down the coast, says Dillehay, who also excavated Monte Verde.

These initial assurances, she adds, helped the rabbis feel comfortable letting the team excavate around the gas chambers, as they were not located on top of a mass - grave site.

They also looked at whether craters made by the comets hitting the surface could excavate enough nitrogen — but that would require a very deep layer of nitrogen ice at the surface, which is not proven.

But until archaeologists have excavated domestic sites on the Maltese islands, we will not know the relative importance of other imported materials, such as flint and obsidian, for a domestic economy that was essentially based on local agriculture.

Tschinkel tried excavating nests and making his own sketches but found he couldn't see their three - dimensional structure clearly.

Common, but little studied, this inconspicuous ant carries away the excavated dirt from its nest, making a colony difficult to find.

Although researchers have longed to excavate the site, called Comb Wash, the cost — roughly $ 1 million — and the time — about five years — have been prohibitive, not to mention the opposition by Native Americans to disturbing sacred grounds.

Three years later, Philip — who was probably in his mid-40s — was assassinated at his daughter's wedding celebration, and it wasn't until the late 1970s, when two male skeletons were excavated from a pair of royal tombs in Vergina, Greece, that researchers believed they had found the monarch's remains.

My idea was to open a crack — perhaps explosively, but not necessarily — so you excavate a wedge in the ground, and then pour liquid iron in it.

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.

Still, agriculture may not have been required for year - round, permanent settlement of the Tibetan Plateau, says Mark Aldenderfer, an archaeologist at the University of California, Merced, who has excavated there for many years.

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.

With his team, Tschinkel excavated and studied some 200 P. badius nests and then carried out a range of experiments.

«We were not surprised that they excavate rock,» says Russell.

The portico itself has not yet been fully excavated, and according to the results of a three - metre deep geophysical survey, the structure appears to continue, and more discoveries thus await the archaeologists.

For example, it may be that meteorite impacts of a certain size may not destroy organic compounds or scientists may need to concentrate on rocks excavated from a certain depth.

Zhoukoudian, not far from Beijing, then called Peking in the West, is the site of a cave first excavated by Franz Weidenreich starting in the late Twenties and during the decade of the Thirties.

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