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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.
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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 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.
* 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.
* 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 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.
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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 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 on this site have shown that there was activity at Carn Euny as early as the Neolithic period.
" Excavations at sites linked to the tale of TĂșathal have produced Roman material of the late 1st or early 2nd centuries.
Excavations on Skarkos hill unearthed a prehistoric settlement, proving that Ios has been inhabited since the early Cycladic period.
Excavations that took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s revealed seven ' marbles ', four pendants, two beads, a used flint flake, a bone chisel and fragments of bone pins and points.
Excavations in the town centre in 1985 found an Iron Age hillfort dating from the early 4th century BC.
Excavations in the early 20th century either side of Stamford road ( A43 ), near the site of the former Prime Cut factory ( now The Warren public house ), revealed an extensive early Saxon burial site, consisting of at least a hundred cremation urns dating to the 5th century AD.
Excavations at the nearby Bestwall site have produced evidence of transient early Mesolithic activity dating to around 9000 BCE.
Excavations have shown there was activity at the harbour area from as early as the 8th century, while the " Auld Kirk Green " at the harbour was used for gatherings by the accused in the North Berwick Witch Trials.
In early 2012, Innova released the four-CD set, " The Eleanor Hovda Collection ," comprising " Ariadne Music ," " Coastal Traces ," " Sound Around The Sound ," and " Excavations.
Excavations on Canvey have unearthed a collection of early man-made objects comprising axes from the Neolithic era, a bracelet dating from the Bronze Age, and Iron Age pottery.
Excavations of the large Roman industrial settlement in the suburbs of modern day Wilderspool and Stockton Heath have unearthed a Roman mask, one of only a handful found in Europe, and the first evidence of this settlement was unearthed during the early excavation of the Bridgewater Canal in Stockton Heath in 1770.
Excavations in the late 1800s and early 1900s at over fourteen sites in the vicinity of Borama in modern-day northwestern Somalia unearthed, among other things, coins identified as having been derived from Qaitbay.
Excavations continue to this day and finds now total some 500 hominids, making Sterkfontein one of the richest site in the world for early hominids.
Excavations at the Icehouse Bottom site near Vonore revealed that Native Americans were living in East Tennessee on at least a semi-annual basis as early as 7, 500 B. C.
Excavations have revealed rough Saxon huts of the early stages of Anglo-Saxon colonization, but their most important enduring monument in Sutton was the massive causeway and weirs that separate the millstream from Sutton Pools.
Excavations and artifacts provide evidence of a settlement on the Michelsberg ( Untergrombach ) as early as 4000 BC during the Neolithic.
Excavations in the 1960s demonstrated the complex nature of early military architecture in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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