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 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 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 in Ashkelon, Ekron, and Gath reveal dog and pig bones which show signs of having been butchered, implying that these animals were part of the residents ' diet.

Excavations were once again carried out in 1978 by Atkinson and John Evans during which they discovered the remains of the Stonehenge Archer in the outer ditch, and in 1979 rescue archaeology was needed alongside the Heel Stone after a cable-laying ditch was mistakenly dug on the roadside, revealing a new stone hole next to the Heel Stone.

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.

Excavations from 1922 to 1934 were funded by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania and led by the archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley.

Excavations were also made below the royal tombs layer: a-thick layer of alluvial clay covered the remains of earlier habitation, including pottery from the Ubaid period, the first stage of settlement in southern Mesopotamia.

Excavations show that there were considerable birch woods with birch trees up to 4 to 6 meters high in the area around the inner parts of the Tunuliarfik-and Aniaaq-fjords, the central area of the Eastern settlement, and the hills were grown with grass and willow brushes.

The facade and roof of the building were listed in 1983 on the advice of the Royal Commission of Monuments, Sites and Excavations.

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

Excavations suggest that all the male children from the wealthier families of Mesopotamia were educated.

Excavations are underway in the Ottoman kilns where the historic Nycean tileware were made.

Excavations at Salamis began in 1952 and were in progress until 1974.

Excavations at the Ciudadela were carried out in the 1920s, supervised by Manuel Gamio.

Excavations in the 1990s, revealing postholes, confirm that wooden steps were built.

Excavations at hill forts in the first half of the 20th century focussed on the defences because of the assumption that hill forts were developed as the result of military tensions.

Excavations were undertaken in the Culebras and Palmitas residential groups on either side of the Pajaro-Romonal Causeway to determine whether differential composition of residential complexes existed in close proximity to the center.

Excavations were also undertaken in the Northeast Acropolis and the Culebras residential group ( especially focusing on Structure C20 ).

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 have shown that many of the buildings were richly adorned with wall paintings, floor mosaics and sub-floor hypocausts, demonstrating the wealth of the elite.

Excavations in the 1920s ascertained the extent of the surviving rooms, and the vaults were reconstructed in 1929.

Excavations done at Ozette, Washington, turned up iron tools nearly 800 years old, far before European contact.

Excavations on the site were done in 1959-61 by Duje Rendić-Miočević that were published in 1981 and by Ivan Mikulčić published in 1971 and 1973.

Excavations at other sites on Dartmoor have shown that such walls were probably built by small teams of men working simultaneously on a section each, as shown by differences in building style ; some evidence of this is visible here.

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

Excavations began in the anterior part, which is formed by a large courtyard of about 15 sq metres, opening on the south by a large door with reliefs supplying the names of the pharaoh and the epithets of Ptah.

Excavations from this archeological site in the 1950s revealed mammoth bones with embedded Clovis points, providing evidence of the hunting activities of Paleo-Indians some 13, 000 years ago.

Excavations at Saint Martin's Square in the centre exposed the foundations of the old Saint Martin's church, which was partly built with Roman waste materials.

Excavations have proven that Adrianou Street is the oldest street in Athens still in continuous use with exactly the same layout since antiquity.

* Stephen G. Miller ( with contributions by Robert C. Knapp and David Chamberlain ), Excavations at Nemea II: The Early Hellenistic Stadium, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001.

Excavations of open settlements are rare, but they show that large 3-4 aisled houses built with wooden posts and wall of wattle and daub were common.

Excavations at Mohenjo-daro in what is now Pakistan have unearthed what is believed to be a hypocaust lined with bitumen-coated bricks.

Excavations of a 4th century burial cave in the village unearthed a cross and a piece of glass engraved with a menorah.

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 at the Celtiberian strongholds Kontebakom-Bel Botorrita, Sekaisa Segeda, Tiermes complement the grave goods found in Celtiberian cemeteries, where aristocratic tombs of the 6th to 5th centuries give way to warrior tombs with a tendency from the 3rd century for weapons to disappear from grave goods, either indicating an increased urgency for their distribution among living fighters or, as Almagro-Gorbea and Lorrio think, the increased urbanization of Celtiberian society.

The later novel Excavations, set in the mid-1950s, deals with the thaw period after Stalin's death as well as with the Danish conquest of Estonia in the Middle Ages, and today considered by several critics as his finest, has not been translated into English yet ; it is however available in German.

The semi-autobiographical novels include Kross ' novel about the ultimate fates of his schoolmates, i. e. The Wikman Boys ( Wikman being based on his alma mater the Westholm Grammar School-both names are of Swedish origin ) a similar sort of novel about his university chums, Mesmer's Circle / Ring ; the novel Excavations which describes Kross ' alter ego Peeter Mirk and his adventures with archaeology, conformism, revolt, compromise and skulduggery after he has returned from the Siberian labour camps and internal exile out there.

Excavations in the 1990s by Nikolaos Stampolidis at Eleutherna in Crete have helped establish more precisely a date and place of origin for the Dame d ' Auxerre, in the region of Eleutherna and Gortyn, with the recovery from gravesites of very similar carved ivory faces and phallic symbols.

Excavations were interrupted in 1914 by World War I and then ended with the Turkish War of Independence.

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 reveal ancient civilization with a sense of style Ekathimerini. com November 16, 2007

* Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989 – 1996, Volume II: The Middle and Late Bronze Afe Strata in Area R ( editor with Robert Mullins ).