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 of a nearby 4th century BC burial mound continue under archaeologist Dr Nurettin Yardımcı.

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

Excavations at the nearby Bestwall site have produced evidence of transient early Mesolithic activity dating to around 9000 BCE.

Excavations of nearby Flag Fen indicate thriving local settlements as far back as 1000 BC.

Excavations under the leadership of Amihai Mazar and George L. Kelm during the 1980s-1990s uncovered twelve strata of continuous settlement at the site through the Hellenistic period, with sparse settlement nearby during the Byzantine period.

Excavations at Parson's Hill in Kings Norton and at Mere Green have revealed a Roman kiln site.

* Excavations begin at the neolithic site of Hyrax Hill, Kenya, by Mary Leakey ( continues until 1938 ).

Excavations have revealed well planned buildings especially at the Hill Complex which was occupied the king.

Excavations made in 1879 and 1880 led to the discovery of the remains of this station, arranged round three sides of a courtyard some 100 ft. square, including traces of baths and other buildings, and a massive embanking wall above them, some 150 ft. in length, to protect them from landslips, while a discharge certificate ( tabula honestae missionis ) of sailors who had served in the Ravenna's fleet was found in some ruins here or hereabouts.

Excavations in 2006 at St Martin-in-the-Fields revealed a Roman grave, suggesting the site had sacred significance.

Excavations have revealed deposits of both burnt and unburnt human bone in the passage, indicating human corpses were indeed placed within it, some of which had been cremated.

Excavations for the brick foundations had begun by July 1840.

" Excavations from 1720 revealed squared stones that had been produced by using tools.

Excavations near Mound 34 from 2002 – 2010 have revealed a copper workshop, although the one of a kind discovery had been previously found in the 1950s by archaeologist Greg Perino but lost for 60 years.

Excavations by Stuart Piggott and Alexander Keiller in the 1930s indicated that around 100 pairs of standing stones had lined the avenue and that they dated to around 2200 BC based on finds of Beaker burials found beneath some of the stones.

Excavations at sites such as Holne Moor have shown that such huts had an interior plank lining.

Excavations carried out recently reveal that this Carolingian cathedral had three naves and three apses.

Excavations in 1938 and 1983 – 4 concluded that there was little evidence of permanent occupation and that the hill fort had been built hurriedly and abandoned by 50 BC.

Excavations in 1961-65 found that it had been inhabited and developed in phases between the 4th century BC and about 4 AD.

Excavations at the site carried out by Leakey and Simpson revealed that they had located stone artifacts which were dated 100, 000 years or older suggesting a human presence in North America much earlier than estimated.

Excavations carried out in 1991 showed that the mound had been raised as a series of level terraces with retaining walls made of nearly intact amphorae filled with shards to anchor them in place.