Sentence examples for excavating sites from inspiring English sources

Over decades excavating sites in Africa, researchers have named half a dozen different species of early human ancestor, but most, if not all, are now on shaky ground.

"I asked if that meant living in tents and excavating sites, and when he said yes, I jumped at the opportunity," he said in an interview with The New York Times in 2006.

Researchers led by the Natural History Museum and British Museum in London began excavating sites near Happisburgh in 2001 as part of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project and soon discovered tools from the stone age beneath ice-age deposits.

Often, Brown says, archaeologists excavating sites with few cultural artifacts use radiocarbon dates to guess which culture they are dealing with, thus creating a "circular process" that could make the team's attempts to correlate culture and climate "problematic".

This study area, Maamora, has an old-growth forest structure incorporating a broad range of size and condition of live and dead trees, favouring Great Spotted Woodpecker by providing high availability of foraging and excavating sites.

But many paleontologists acknowledge that there are commercial collectors who excavate sites with care.

Of excavated sites in Punjab, Banawali is an important major settlement, surrounded by massive brick defenses.

The general noted that Iraq had begun to excavate sites where it claims to have destroyed nerve agents and biological weapons.

Since the space has not been touched in 35 years, it can no longer accommodate a growing collection of material from newly excavated sites throughout Israel.

Archaeologists are particularly worried about partially excavated sites, such as Mari near the Iraqi border, inhabited since the 5th century BC.

"There was greater poverty because of the sanctions, and people would do anything for work," he said, noting that it was easy to find impoverished peasants to excavate sites.