An extreme case is, of course, currently being unearthed - all too literally - in Iraq, where every week sees the discovery of new mass graves and the exhumation of the victims of Saddam Hussein's Shia and Kurdish purges.
Whitepark Bay has an unusually long tradition of attracting visitors: Neolithic settlements and Bronze Age burial sites have all been unearthed here.
An amber mine in far north Burma has also thrown up some important new discoveries: a 100m-year-old gecko, the oldest-known mushroom and fern have all been unearthed preserved in amber.
But for all its unearthed home-movie footage, "A Life in Pictures" ultimately amounts to little more than a glossy overview of a man misunderstood as artist and human being -- and yet another missed opportunity for Warner to add to its Kubrick legacy.
When authentic all-rounders are unearthed – about once every 10 years at best – they shift the balance of the team hugely, either in their presence or their absence.
And then there were the layers of gay subtext to be unearthed in all the various strands of straight acting in high and low culture of previous generations.
If you're thinking that this is all from a newly unearthed screenplay by Arthur Miller, or perhaps a synopsis of Ken Loach's latest work, you couldn't be more wrong.
But all the US European-style tools, unearthed before the discovery or dating of the recently found or dated US east coast sites, were from around 15,000 years ago - long after Stone Age Europeans (the Solutrean cultures of France and Iberia) had ceased making such artefacts.
The natural poetry of her immediate responses to the muddy land and the bright sky, to animals and flowers, wood and dirt, flourish in the presence of Akin while they are also stifled by the hardass wisdom of her father — played by Robert Longstreet, whose grainy baritone growl seems unearthed from all the Westerns of vanished dreams.
For many years the cemetery was buried under a garden in the back yard of a residence, but in 1949 a major renovation began whereby all the stones were unearthed, cleaned, and returned to their original positions.
