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  • noun Plural form of excavation.

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Examples

  • This issue contains articles on the mollusks found in excavations in the Middle East, the clausiliid Papillifera bidens (= Papillifera papillaris) in North Africa (seems like there is something about that snail in every issue of the Newsletter), an essay on the difficulties of distinguishing between mollusk shells modified by accidental or taphonomic processes and those intentionally modified by humans.

    Archive 2009-07-01 AYDIN 2009

  • This issue contains articles on the mollusks found in excavations in Italy, United Arab Emirates and Israel, Papillifera bidens (= Papillifera papillaris) from Carthage and abstracts of recent relevant papers, announcements of upcoming meetings and other items of interest.

    Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009

  • Amihai Mazar, Eleazar L. Sukenik Professor of Archaeology at the Hebrew University, revealed that the first apiary (beehive colony) dating from the Biblical period has been found in excavations he directed this summer at Tel Rehov in Israel's Beth Shean Valley.

    September 5th, 2007 2007

  • (Department of Defense) - sponsored field activity, to include investigation and excavations, is limited to DoD personnel, wrote Charles Ray, deputy assistant secretary of defense, POW/Missing Personnel Affairs, in a letter to Jones.

    Hargrove, Joseph N. 1975

  • Nor was it policy to inform families of changes in excavations, schedules or what is happening during the excavation.

    Moore, Thomas 1965

  • Among the interesting illustrations of sacred history furnished by the recent Assyrian excavations, is a series of bas-reliefs, representing the siege of a town, which the inscription on the sculpture shows to be Lachish, and the figure of a king, whose name is given, on the same inscription, as

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Archaeology is not simply the finite body of artefactual evidence uncovered in excavations.

    Random quote on archaeology Mia 2007

  • Archaeology is not simply the finite body of artefactual evidence uncovered in excavations.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Mia 2007

  • But a scholar in Israel, while calling the excavations interesting, said the challenge was to find Khazar inscriptions.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • But a scholar in Israel, while calling the excavations interesting, said the challenge was to find Khazar inscriptions.

    Khazar Capital Found (Maybe) Jan 2008

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