Sentence examples for Little excavation from inspiring English sources

The city was surrounded by a great stone wall and moat, the ruins of which survive, but little excavation has been done in the interior.

In the case of one little excavation job in Bogota, Colombia, laborers told the police that they had been offered triple wages if they could finish the work by Christmas.

They require little excavation, though the bones need to be consolidated with resins before they can be studied (Ahlberg et al. 1994).

It's hard for museums to avoid the black market partly because there is so little legitimate excavation going on that can yield new finds.

It also indulges in a little literary excavation, and functions as a window on the mid-1980s New York gay community that was decimated by the Aids epidemic.

Though archaeological work has been conducted here for over 70 years, the focus has been on obtaining radiocarbon dating sequences and rescue excavation; little is known in detail about the middens or the people who built them.

The fossil described below is a spectacular find and I have been able to persuade Don to write a little about its discover, excavation and preparation.

The area dates between 1000AD and 1400AD, and while very little is known without excavation of the site and surrounding region, Fisher said it was likely that European diseases had at least in part contributed to the culture's disappearance.

It is 50 years since "the squirrel theory of history" (ie the excavation of little nuts of information from provincial archives that are reburied in the Bodleian) was satirised by Kingsley Amis in Lucky Jim; and it is true that the pressure to publish still produces too many theses in this category.

At the la Mina and el Forn excavation areas, little evidence exists for the anthropogenic processing of macromammals.

Although the excavations received little coverage by Western media outlets, they were covered extensively in China.