Sentences with phrase «of excavation work»

Each year across Canada there are thousands of underground utility disruptions from some form of excavation work.

It means the site must be cleared of excavation work by [Monday] December 1.

That over was two years ago, but I don't suppose the area has changed much since then, though some of the excavation work has probably moved forward.

With that in mind, Stanley begins to question the character - building component of their excavation work when a small metal item found in one of the holes brings their elusive female Warden (Sigourney Weaver) rushing out of her air - conditioned house and into the hot sun.

Not exact matches

Several Canadian space companies are working on prototypes of excavation rovers that might one day dig for water on the moon; without that H2O, it would be difficult to mine anything else.

[64] Burnaby's two bylaws, one addressing traffic and the other parks, purported to give Burnaby the power to effectively stop both excavation work on the existing Trans Mountain right of way and engineering feasibility work for the Trans Mountain proposed Burnaby Mountain route.

These discoveries illustrate the important work that goes on at excavations across Israel every year, and just scratch the surface of what has been found in 2013.

Lord Carnarvon, the financial backer of the work of excavation, was said to have been stung by something that darted out of the tomb when the closed opening was finally broken through.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

Here excavations indicate that the city (earlier and under a different name, the capital of the Hyksos Dynasty) was destroyed in the sixteenth century when the Hyksos were expelled, that reoccupation probably began shortly before 1300 B.C., and that work went on there under the first two kings of the Nineteenth Dynasty, Seti I (about 1310 - 1290 B.C.) and his son Rameses II (about 1290 - 1224 B.C.), who gave his name to the city.

Let's consider one recent excavation — the work at Sepphoris, Herod Antipas's capital, four miles northwest of Nazareth.

Owing to a reduction in clay and coal excavation works in the area, and canal trade, this seat has the highest unemployment rates of the three Stoke seats; this seat has 6.2 % of workless registered unemployment benefit claimants, compared to a national average of 3.8 % and regional average of 4.7 %.

The block on excavations has been the latest in a series of obstacles for archaeologists working in Egypt — the home of perhaps one - third of the world's antiquities, which reveal a vanished culture in unmatched detail (see «New research in an ancient land»).

Dr Frieman has been able to mount the geophysical survey and excavation work with the help of Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) and a contribution from the ANU College of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Paleontologists from the University of Bonn, working with Dinosaur Park Münchehagen and the State Museum of Hanover, have now created a three - dimensional digital model based on photographs of the excavation.

Archaeologists working today are behind measurements and notes on excavations that may be used hundreds of years in the future.

The remains of some of these reptiles were found during excavation work by a team of scientists who noticed well - preserved bone structures.

Bretschneider led the German team from University of Mnster, which worked between 1992 and 2000 at the Euro - Syrian excavations at Tell Beydar, and is now excavating with a Syro - Belgian team in Tell Tweini (ancient Gibala) on the Syrian coast.

The documentation and finds from this excavation campaign form the basis for further scientific work, including in the form of university theses, which will be completed at the Goethe University in the near future.

The excavation teams hope their work will help convey the importance of these little - known camps.

When he finally received permission to run his own excavations, Sarianidi worked in northern Afghanistan during the relatively peaceful decades of the 1960s and 1970s.

While we were extremely excited about seeing the bones, we didn't have an excavation permit — or the time — to work on that, so we covered the Suuwassea and spent the rest of the day looking around the area.

It brings together the author's work on the southern coast of Peru and, by mixing the results of excavation with ethnographic analogy, presents a model of Nasca culture that adds significantly to our understanding of the complex societies in the Andes.

Pompeii's electronic guide: After 250 years of excavation, archaeologists working at Pompeii have discovered a powerful new tool.

After Stanford's initial find, Stephen J. Godfrey, curator of paleontology at the Calvert Marine Museum, coordinated the excavation of the slab and produced the mold and cast that formed the basis of the scientific work.

«We do not see overlapping tracks — overlapping tracks would occur if multiple tracks were made over a longer period while the sand was wet,» said Compton Tucker, a Goddard Earth scientist who helped with the excavation, coordinated bringing in multiple scientists to study the tracks, and has worked to create a display of the cast in Goddard's Earth science building.

«It is nothing short of a catastrophe,» said Michel al - Maqdissi, former head of excavations in Syria's antiquities department in Damascus, who now works at the Louvre in Paris and maintains contacts in Syria.

On one of my first paid excavations I injured my back and it continued to bother me for the next 7 years due to the nature of the work; digging, traveling, and lifting screens full of heavy dirt.

In some of the most striking passages in the new documentary I Am Not Your Negro, director Raoul Peck implicitly connects The Devil Finds Work with the tradition of Marlon Riggs's Ethnic Notions and Spike Lee's Bamboozled, films that reimagine cinematic history as a site of racial excavation.

The timeline works well alongside other Historic England online resources, for example the teaching notes, presentations and activities exploring life in Bronze Age Britain through the exciting story of the recent excavation at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire; and a whole range of images for the period featuring archaeological sites around the country, tools and remains and modern reconstructions of homes and settlements.

Subsequent excavations show that this part of Roman culture was advanced for the time and rich in architecture, advanced infrastructures, and works of art.

The style of the book is like a memoir, with the intimate details and emotional excavation that I aspire to in my own work.

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Rather than taking a traditional sci - fi approach to that we wanted to look at how that would happen practically, what the ships would look like and with machines that were designed for excavation and construction, demolition and working the land, and what happens when they are turned into instruments of war.»

The title of the show derives from a 1976 article, «The Apotheosis of the Crummy Space,» by Nancy Foote in Artforum, in which Foote celebrated the artistic use of spaces in abandoned buildings; her notion that such rooms in such buildings could be transformed by additions to or changes within them was, at the time, a powerful esthetic for Gordon Matta Clark's excavations of forsaken places in New York City, or by David Wojnarowicz's work a generation later.

NEWS > Artnet News publishes list of most expensive women artists and New York - based Julie Mehretu (at right) ranks No. 5, earning the spot when her 2001 work «Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation» sold for $ 4.6 million at Christie's New Yok in 2013.

A British room contains four works by Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011), ranging from an early painting (Self Portrait, 1949) to the remarkable etching, Self - Portrait: Reflection (1996); two paintings by Francis Bacon (1909 - 92); the heavily impasto Head of Man (Self - Portrait)(1964) by Leon Kossoff (b1926), whose thick paint swirls offer his own form of distortion, concealment and ensuing excavation; and a delightful recent graphite piece by Frank Auerbach (b1931), Self - Portrait II (2010).

This loan exhibition features some 100 works from the artist's extensive body of work and includes some wonderful portraits and landscapes including this wonderfully monochromatic yet richly textured depiction of a Pennsylvania excavation site.

These painterly excavations work and rework Bradford's own negotiation with what the artist calls «easy equations» of racial, sexual and socio - economic realities, which are directly upended through his process.

The title suggests both an excavation of the work's materiality and a humanistic exploration of the effects of modern civilization.

I've always preferred de Kooning's abstract work (like Excavation, owned by the Art Institute of Chicago), but precisely because of their misogyny, felt repelled by his Women paintings.

His recent work engages in a broader excavation of American history to raise questions about the preservation of the past and the transference of power.

Art historian Lóránd Hegyi writes that Chung's work initiates a «metaphorical archeology» within the viewer — an internal excavation of the artist's process that leads to self - realization.

And the third painting in the series Excavation at Night (1908) though unfortunately over-varnished, particularly damaging for a very dark painting, but at the same time the shiny blackness of large areas of the work served to reinforce the connection I made between Bellows» choice and treatment of this subject and Robert Smithson «s observations on entropy in his 1967 essay «A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey.»

What makes de Kooning such a great artist may be something far more subtle, far more interior to painting itself and perhaps expressed best in his earlier works, those that are, again, often described as transitional, from figurative works of the early 40s to even abstractions such as Painting, Attic, or Excavation.

Drawing on extracts from apocalyptic works by Octavia Butler and Mary Shelley, the film employs a science fiction device which invites viewers to imagine the excavation and dissection of modern life from a future point in time.

Just as the church's Spanish iconography was imposed upon an existing indigenous ceremonial space, the artist's work was a palimpsest of layered histories — a vertical excavation of architecture — a near spiritual experience.

Much as he once buried a plane that was no longer in use as a performative earth work, Hiorns hints here to an excavation of sorts, an unearthing of the forgotten social, political, consumer, industrial, mechanical elements of our society and resignification of these elements vis - à - vis the presence of the bodies of naked youth.

Experiencing Washington's work is a kind of visual excavation, as the intricate layers convey a subtle yet powerful metaphor.

Excavations of the site, which was uncovered on land awaiting housing construction work, were due to end in mid-September but have now been extended until the end of 2017 by the French state.