Sentences with phrase «when excavated»

It regrows itself when excavated.

ANCIENT NETWORKERS DNA from four Stone Age people — including the two shown here as they looked when excavated, top, and at the time of death, bottom — suggests that hunter - gatherers have long formed groups with few close relatives.

He notes that the two bones were apparently originally fused together when excavated — connected by some of the reactive bone growth — but had apparently become separated over the years.

These trees sent smaller roots down from the lateral roots that, when excavated, resembled tentacles of an octopus.

Tullis Onstott has to put on a headlamp and protective gear when excavating microbial live in some of South Africa's deepest mines.

They stumbled on their finding when excavating the sites of two ancient villages some 50 kilometers south of Tbilisi.

WTB carries the Geosmithia morbida fungus and causes damage to walnut trees when it excavates under bark to feed and lay eggs, and, in the process, inoculates the tree with the fungus.

I think it's important to know you're not alone when excavating yourself from the mainstream.

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

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

Amber is commonly mistaken for a stone or crystal when the substance is actually excavated resin that spent millions of years hardening underneath the Earth's surface.

I love when easy activities like Button Excavating can be a week - long hit.

When scientists excavated a 40,000 - year - old skeleton in China in 2003, they thought they had discovered the offspring of a Neandertal and a modern human.

They form when impacts plunge deep below a world's surface, excavating rock that bounces back up in the center before collapsing.

The scientists and volunteers were excavating a site that produced parts of several immature sauropods when Dana Biasatti, then a student at UT - D, «stretched her legs» and came upon the remarkable remains of an adult titanosaur a few hundred yards away.

She excavates the hidden beliefs people hold by measuring how fast they make value judgments when shown a rapid - fire succession of stimuli, such as photographs of faces.

The excavated terra cotta army of life - size soldiers, horses and chariots buried with the First Emperor of China some 23 centuries ago is an impressive sight now — but just imagine how the 8,000 - plus figures looked when new, covered in brightly colored paints.

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.

Two years ago, Jim Christie was excavating his family claim using a two - story backhoe when an overhanging face collapsed, exposing the mummified carcass of a prehistoric bison.

When Gingerich traveled to the quarry, he noted veins of red sediment in the excavated limestone.

Most of it came to Boston via rail and sea during the post — World War I years, when the godfather of Nubian archaeology, Harvard University Egyptologist George Reisner, excavated at Napata and other sites in Sudan.

University of Toronto archaeologist Timothy Harrison and colleagues are excavating a temple in the Tell Tayinat region of Turkey, built around 800 B.C. Though this time was thought to be a dark age when trade between Greece and the Middle East nearly ground to a halt, Harrison says that his finds — including ivory carvings, precious metal foils, and pottery — are a clear indication of cultural and economic exchange among cultures such as the Hittites, Aegeans, and Semites.

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.

When the town was excavated in the 19th century, archaeologists found human - shaped cavities in the ash where bodies had decomposed.

Hell Creek in particular, just north of Jordan in northeastern Montana, became famous when legendary paleontologist Barnum Brown excavated the first documented T. rex here in 1902.

Bradley is one of a growing number of academics in the United Kingdom who are doing their digging in the masses of unpublished «grey literature» generated when commercial archaeologists are brought in to excavate before any sort of construction.

That changed in 2013, when researchers excavating the remains of a Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri in Israel uncovered 40 large ceramic jars, pictured above, in a storage room dated to the Middle Bronze Age (1900 to 1600 B.C.E.).

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.

To date the deposits, Emslie and his coworkers measured out three pits of one square meter (about 10 square feet) at each site, then excavated samples at two - inch intervals, going down one to two feet until they reached the bottom layer of bird detritus, deposited when the site was first occupied.

When the scientists examined the digested sheets using scanning electron and atomic force microscopes, they saw that the bacteria had excavated 0.4 - µm - deep pits on the plastic film.

When he originally excavated Guilá Naquitz, Flannery found no visible plant remnants of teosinte.

In fact, when old landfills have been excavated or sampled, 40 - year - old newspapers have been found with easily readable print.

In the late 70's, however, archaeological evidence found in Chekinag Province dispelled this belief when researchers excavated a massive collection of carbonized grains, straw, earthen cooking utensils and evidence of advanced wooden huts.

``... we lack compelling scenarios leading to the origin of iron meteorites... Early solar system collisions have been called upon to excavate this iron [from the cores of the largest asteroids], although numerical impact models have found this task difficult to achieve, particularly when it is required to occur many dozens of times, yet not a single time for asteroid Vesta.»

When you dig through mess, you're likely to excavate a lot of deep emotional residue that's buried in your clutter.

When Denis Peyrony became the first to excavate at Abri Cellier in 1905 (Peyrony, 1926, pp. 5), the southeastern margin of the talus had already been The Restoration of Priesthood Keys on Easter 1836 Part 1: Dating the First Easter.

Moll's sudden new boyfriend wouldn't be warmly greeted by her snobbish, insular family under the best of circumstances; when police excavate the corpse of the fourth young woman murdered on the isle in recent months, their hostility is mingled with paranoia.

Disposal of surplus excavated material off - site is a very expensive business in these days of landfill tax so, if possible, retaining the materials on site should be an objective when designing the finished profile.

Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction - both her own and others» - and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us.

When Clemantine was twelve, she and her sister were granted asylum in the United States, where she embarked on another journey — to excavate her past and, after years of being made to feel less than human, claim her individuality.

The first and second drafts of a book are when the scenes are coming together, and you are finding your story similarly to how an archaeologist would excavate «a fossil in the ground,» in the words of Stephen King.

When writing historical fiction, the novelist must become an archaeologist — combining research and imagination to excavate relics of the past, confront ghosts, and make old stories new again.

When the foundation for the Ambergris Lodge was excavated, quite a few cannon balls were unearthed.

It is filled with silverware, lacqueurware, hilltribe jewellery, a sword collection, an eighteenth century Buddha image, and also with the post, plates, etc., that were discovered when the hotel site was excavated.

«This book excavates the moment when museums were forced to face artists» demands for justice and equality.

In the case of El Hierro, where the storage solution is a water reservoir purpose - excavated for the system, the easiest way to increase the duration of the storage would be to make the grid smarter, so that electricity is mostly consumed when wind is blowing.

Evans and his team now plan on further exploring the city's ruins to understand what exactly happened during its collapse: «We're going now and excavating [the sites] on the ground, and trying to get a grip on when they happened — whether they were a precursor of the decline, a symptom or the system gradually falling into ruin after they left.»

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.

Map staking removes the need to cut down trees, knock down fences or excavate land when a prospector stakes a claim.»

Excavating a basement is an expensive business, but when the result is as wonderful as this, it's worth every penny.