Manfred Korfmann, on the other hand, an archaeologist who excavated at Troy for 15 years, maintains that Zangger's conclusion is "completely out of the question".
Especially acute are painstaking drawings of odd objects — a camera tripod, heaped erasers, samurai armor — which appeal less to vision than to touch, as if they were excavated by hand from pictorial space.
To ground truth the observations, hand dug trenches were excavated to confirm several anomalies.
Eight poplar clones of different species, planted at various spacings and from different planting types, were excavated by hand.
The surface and areas immediately surrounding each nest were excavated by hand with the aid of trowels, shop brushes and a 1/16-in (1.59 mm) screen sieve.
You can use a hand auger to excavate holes.
Hominin hand and arm bones have been excavated from here in the Okote Member and dated at 1.56 1.36 Ma.
We excavated the entire area by hand, helped by local farmers.
A prolific and impassioned writer, the text of his art work, When I Put My Hands On Your Body, overlain the image of excavated graves, speaks as freshly these years after his death as when he wrote them.
The specimen had also been excavated by poachers, who had removed the skull, hands and feet, but left behind a single toe bone.
The 44cm-long coffin fell into the hands of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in 1907, after it was excavated from Giza in Egypt the same year.
