Excavations were resumed at the Walcott Quarry by the Geological Survey of Canada under the persuasion of trilobite expert Harry Blackmore Whittington, and a new quarry, the Raymond, was established about 20 metres higher up Fossil Ridge.

Excavations at Uisnech in the 20th century provided evidence of large fires taking place.

* MacKie, E W 2002a Excavations at Dun Ardtreck, Skye, in 1964 and 1965.

Excavations at early urban sites show that some cities were sparsely populated political capitals, others were trade centers, and still other cities had a primarily religious focus.

Excavations at Praeneste, an Etruscan city which became Roman, turned up about 118 cistae, one of which has been termed " the Praeneste cista " or " the Ficoroni cista " by art analysts, with special reference to the one manufactured by Novios Plutius and given by Dindia Macolnia to her daughter, as the archaic Latin inscription says.

Excavations of prehistoric sites by Louis Dupree and others suggest that early humans were living in what is now Afghanistan at least 50, 000 years ago, and that farming communities in Afghanistan were among the earliest in the world.

Excavations at Mathura revealed many Jain statues from the time of the Kushan Empire.

* 1948 Excavations at the Jewry Wall Site, of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 15, Leicester, London: Society of Antiquaries, 1948.

* 1959 Excavations at Southwark, Papers of Surrey Archaeological Society 5, 1959.

* 1960 Excavations at Jericho-Volume I Tombs Excavated in 1952-4, London 1960.

* 1965 Excavations at Jericho-Volume II Tombs Excavated in 1955-8, London, 1965.

* Kenrick, Philip M. ( 1986 ), Excavations at Sabratha, 1948-1951: a Report on the Excavations conducted by Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins, ( Journal of Roman Studies Monographs 2 ), London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1986.

Excavations at thé site of Sinthiou Bara, near Matam, have proved particularly fruitful.

* Excavations at Stonehenge

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, The Excavations at Stonehenge.

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, Second Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge.

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, Third Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge.

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, Fourth Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge.

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge during the season of 1923.

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge during the season of 1924.

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge during 1925 and 1926.

Excavations starting in 1967 at the site called Akrotiri under the late Professor Spyridon Marinatos have made Thera the best-known " Minoan " site outside of Crete, the homeland of the culture.

Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

( 1928 ) Excavations at Wookey Hole and other Mendip caves 1926-7.

Excavations near the site of a present day church and monastery, have revealed an early church with two empty tombs, believe to be that of St. Barnabas and Anthemios.

Excavations in the Antigua Guatemala Urías and Rucal, have yielded stratified materials from the Early and Middle Preclassic periods ( 2000 BC to 400 BC ).

Excavations in Alby, Sweden, adjacent to the Stora Alvaret have yielded elk antlers in wooden hut remains from 6000 BC, indicating some of the earliest elk hunting in northern Europe.

Excavations have unearthed a Muslim necropolis and a mosque from the 12th century next to a Norman castle.

Excavations have demonstrated that it was the ability of the Nabataeans to control the water supply that led to the rise of the desert city, creating an artificial oasis.

Excavations undertaken by the Monmouth Archaeological Society on sites along Monnow Street have uncovered a wealth of information about the early history of the town.

Excavations of the prehistoric art of the Dian civilization of Yunnan have revealed hunting scenes of Caucasoid horsemen in Central Asian clothing.

Excavations of old Indian sites in the Mount Desert Island region have yielded remains of the native mammals.

Excavations have found that children were buried in painted pottery jars.

Excavations of Chu tombs have found painted wooden sculptures, jade disks, glass beads, musical instruments, and an assortment of lacquerware.

Excavations in the area of " Bolobok Cave " on Sanga-Sanga Island, Tawi-Tawi Province, have shown the remains of humans dwelling there about 4, 000 years ago.

Excavations have revealed several inscriptions written in this language.

Excavations at nearby Thracian sites have shown uninterrupted occupation from the 7th to the 4th century and close commercial relations with the colony.

Excavations have revealed settlements in the area dating from the Early Neolithic, possibly Mesolithic periods.

Excavations have revealed a Roman settlement.

Excavations on Glastonbury Tor, undertaken by a team led by Philip Rahtz between 1964 and 1966, revealed evidence of Dark Age occupation around the later medieval church of St. Michael: postholes, two hearths including a metalworker's forge, two burials oriented north-south ( thus unlikely to be Christian ), fragments of 6th century Mediterranean amphorae ( vases for wine or cooking oil ), and a worn hollow bronze head which may have topped a Saxon staff.

Excavations on this site have shown that there was activity at Carn Euny as early as the Neolithic period.

Excavations at the SV-2 archaeological site in the area have recovered several well preserved skeletons of now extinct species dating back to the last ice age.

Excavations at Mow Cop have found querns dating back to the Iron Age.

Excavations at Tell al-Rimah have revealed brick domical vaults from about 2000 BC.

" Excavations at sites linked to the tale of Túathal have produced Roman material of the late 1st or early 2nd centuries.

Excavations in Iraq have revealed evidence of localized flooding at Shuruppak ( modern Tell Fara, Iraq ) and various other Sumerian cities — all dated to the same time.