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

Excavations at the site in 2006 led to the discovery of a grave dated about 410.

Excavations in modern-day Iraq by Ernest de Sarzec in 1877 found evidence of the earliest known code of justice, issued by the Sumerian king Urukagina of Lagash ca 2300 BC.

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 found imported fabrics from England, Byzantium, Persia and central Asia.

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 of the site between 1966 and 1969 found pottery and an oven dating back to the 14th or 15th century.

The statue was found during the Antiquities Service Excavations of 1924 – 1925.

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

Excavations in the town centre in 1985 found an Iron Age hillfort dating from the early 4th century BC.

Excavations by the Dubai Museum in the region of Al-Jumayra ( Jumeirah ) found several artifacts from the Umayyad period.

Excavations at Zhoukoudian resumed after the war, and parts of another skull were found in 1966.

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 in 2008 to the west at Penwith College found an enclosure ditch and pottery indicating a settlement and, an evolving field system with ditches and interconnecting pits suggesting water management.

Excavations have shown the presence of coins and other currency from Mesopotamia in the Middle East including an eagle cast in Iraq ( found in Ingushetia ) and buried treasure containing 200 Arabian silver dirhams from the 9th century in Northern Chechnya.

Excavations of these earthworks in 1956 revealed a series of peasant enclosures and hut remains dating from the 9th to the 12th century, but no evidence of a manorial farmstead was found.

Excavations in plazas near Moche huacas have found groups of people sacrificed together and the skeletons of young men deliberately excarnated, perhaps for temple displays.

Excavations here provides evidence of a temporary settlement as no structures were found at the site.

Excavations at Petra since 1974 have revealed a temple, apparently dedicated to Isis / al -‘ Uzzá, now named after some carvings found inside, the Temple of the Winged Lions ( Hammond ).

Excavations in the 1930s by Alex Curle found the first confirmed Norse longhouse in the British Isles and later digs in the 1950s found evidence of fishing and farming activities.

Excavations have found a cemetery containing more than 250 Roman burials, including 11 stone sarcophagi.

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 of some of these hut sites conducted in 1910 and 1930 found evidence for occupation in the Roman period, with finds including pottery, coins, and a small bronze stag.

Excavations at Kadesh conducted by Dr Rudolph Cohen ( former head of the Israeli Antiquities Service ) during the Israeli occupation of Sinai following the 1967 war uncovered copious remains of the Middle Bronze I period ( sometimes known as Intermediate Bronze Age ), which were also found at numerous other sites in the Negev.