Summarizes the excavation and transport by helicopter of a possible Albertosaurus skeleton ; however, per Carr & Williamson ( 2010 ), specimen may later have been assigned to Bistahieversor.

The oldest boats to be found by archaeological excavation are logboats from around 7, 000 – 10, 000 years ago.

The project received approval from state environmental agencies in 1991, after satisfying concerns including release of toxins by the excavation and the possibility of disrupting the homes of millions of rats, causing them to roam the streets of Boston in search of new housing.

In simple craters, the original excavation cavity is overlain by a lens of collapse breccia, ejecta and melt rock, and a portion of the central crater floor may sometimes be flat.

Some writers of the " realist " strain of modern Arthurian fiction have attempted a more sensible Camelot ; inspired by Alcock's Cadbury-Camelot excavation, writers Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mary Stewart, and Catherine Christian place their Camelots in that city and describe it accordingly.

The tablets were found in 1964 by Massimo Pallottino during an excavation at the ancient Etruscan port of Pyrgi, now Santa Severa.

In-situ soils can be compacted either by excavation and recompaction, or by methods such as deep dynamic compaction, vibrocompaction, or compaction grouting.

In 1891 Carter was sent out by the Egypt Exploration Fund to assist Percy Newberry in the excavation and recording of Middle Kingdom tombs at Beni Hasan.

On 4 November 1922, Howard Carter's excavation group found the steps leading to Tutankhamun's tomb ( subsequently designated KV62 ), by far the best preserved and most intact pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.

Further excavation of the Troy site by others indicated that the level he named the Troy of the Iliad was not that, although they retain the names given by Schliemann.

The novel The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd ( 2006 ) is based on Schliemann's excavation of Troy.

* 1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.

One of the most famous and complete hominid skeletons ever discovered was the 1. 6 million year old Homo erectus known as the Turkana Boy which was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 on an excavation led by Richard Leakey.

Kenyon's legacy in the field of excavation technique and ceramic methodology is attested to by Larry G. Herr, one of the directors of the Madaba Plains Project.

Latest findings in the Kerameikos include the excavation of a 2. 1 m tall Kouros, unearthed by the German Archaeological Institute at Athens under the direction of Professor Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier.

No true dragon ship, as defined by the sagas, has been found by archaeological excavation.

A preliminary planning phase of cleaning and surveying took place in 2004 and 2005, and was followed by a five-year excavation program beginning in June 2006.

Mineral sources are generally divided into surface mines, which are mined by excavation using heavy equipment, and subsurface mines.

John Hedges describes him as possessing " a rapacious appetite for excavation matched only by his crude techniques, lack of inspiration, and general inability to publish.

Some additional excavation occurred by Manhal Jabur in 1980, and Manhal Jabur in 1987.

This " Venerated Area " underwent extensive excavation in 1955-65 by the Franciscan priest Bellarmino Bagatti, " Director of Christian Archaeology.

In Europe since the late 1840s, the king of Sardinia, Carlo Alberto, had been contemplating the excavation of a tunnel through Mount Fréjus in order to create a rail link between Italy and France, which would cross his realm.

The first fully published excavation was not begun until 1836 ; it was carried out by Russian archaeologists under the direction of Carlo Brullo.

Fea helped frame legislation to control the trade in, and excavation of, the antiquities of Rome, and undertook archaeological work on the Pantheon and the Forum there.

Schliemann made a third excavation at Troy in 1882 – 1883, an excavation of Tiryns with Wilhelm Dörpfeld in 1884, a fourth excavation at Troy, also with Dörpfeld ( who emphasized the importance of strata ), in 1888 – 1890.

He later used artifacts and the excavation reports published or sent to him by Danish archaeologists who were doing controlled excavations.

In 1851, some modest excavation was done by William Loftus, who identified it as Susa.

In this sense, an excavation may sometimes be referred to as a " dig " by those who participate, this being a concise, if oversimplified description of the process.

While waiting for Amy, Thomas, Susan, Barry and many hippies, tree huggers, townspeople and animal enthusiasts stand up to the large crowd of developers who are waiting to start the excavation of the site.

The current excavator, Petros Themelis, who received permission to dig from the Council of Athens Archaeological Society in 1986, suggests that systematic excavation of the site was first undertaken by George Oikoumenos of the Athens Archaeological Society in 1895.

The site, named after John Topper, a local resident who discovered it, has been under excavation by archeologists from the University of South Carolina for about one month a year since 1999, after an initial exploratory dig in the mid-1980s.

In 1898 Blackheath Barrow — a ring cairn monument situated above Cross Stone in Todmorden — was excavated and proved to be a site of " surpassing archaeological interest ", according to J. Lawton Russell, one of the men who carried out the excavation.

His brother Andrea introduced him to Latin and the ancient civilization, and later he studied as an architect under his uncle, Matteo Lucchesi, who was Magistrato delle Acque, a Venetian engineer who specialized in excavation.

Their success was made possible by the generosity of Edoardo Almagià, who, as well as giving his permission for the exploration, donated in advance whatever should be discovered underneath the palace and made an ongoing financial contribution to the expenses of the excavation.

Various archaeologists have speculated as to the meaning of the decoration, with some, such as George Coffey ( who produced a study of art at " New Grange " in the 1890s ), believing them to be purely decorative, whilst others, like M. J. O ’ Kelly ( who led the 1962 – 1975 excavation at the site ), believing them to have some sort of symbolic purpose, because some of the carvings had been in places that would not have been visible, such as at the bottom of the orthostatic slabs, below ground level.

James Mellaart, who led excavation at the site in the 1960s, suggests that the figures represent a Great goddess, who headed the pantheon of an essentially matriarchal culture.

Upon discovery in 1998, Seahenge, which received its name from the press, who named it after the more famous prehistoric structure Stonehenge in Wiltshire, was picked up by the local and national media, inducing a great deal of publicity around its excavation.

This was only increased due to the protests held against the excavation by both locals, who wanted it to remain as a tourist site, and Neopagans, who believed that the removal of the structure was an insult to the religious beliefs of its original builders.

During excavation of Mound 72, a ridge-top burial mound south of Monks Mound, archaeologists found the remains of a man in his 40s who was probably an important Cahokian ruler.

John Robert Mortimer ( 15 June 1825-19 August 1911 ) was an English corn-merchant and archaeologist who lived in Driffield, Yorkshire and was responsible for the excavation of many barrows in that area, including Duggleby Howe.

From 1979 onwards this work was increasingly funded on a voluntary basis by the developers of the sites themselves, largely as a result of the remarkable efforts of Brian Hobley and John Maloney of the DUA, who convinced developers to contribute time and money to excavation work as good corporate citizens.

The author, Felix, reports conflicts with the Britons: " in the days of Coenred King of the Mercians, [...] the Britons the implacable enemies of the Saxon race, were troubling the English with their attacks, their pillaging, and their devastations of the people [...]" To counter such attacks, Æthelbald, who came to the throne in 716, was once thought to have built Wat's Dyke, an earthwork barrier in northern Wales ; but this now seems unlikely, since an excavation of the Dyke in 1997 found charcoal from a hearth which was radiocarbon-dated to some time between 411 and 561.