The macroscopic shapes of the lesions were categorized as protruding (I), non-protruding and non-excavated (II), or excavated (III).
Given the importance of the site, the Belitung shipwreck ought undoubtedly to have been excavated non-commercially in accordance with archaeological standards.
Equally fascinating, if less well known, however, are the towns, fortresses, cultic centers, domestic spaces, and non-elite cemeteries that have been excavated over the past 200 years or so.
At the stage of starting the present gene mining study, N. gruberi was the only species with whole genome data released within the non-parasitic excavates, and thereby the excavate genes with cyanobacterial ancestry were mostly from N. gruberi.
Most intriguing of all and making up two-thirds of the exhibition are more than 130 items excavated between 1986 and 1990 from non-Scythian burial mounds near the town of Filippovka on Russia's southern steppes.
Mexican soil: A tropical, non-agricultural clay loam, Regosol associated with Leptosol, was excavated from the rhizospheres of 10 Parviglumis plants growing in a wild field near Mazatlan, Guerrero, Mexico, at GPS coordinates 17.435517,-99.474068 October 23 20092009.
But the focus here -- and it gives the proceedings a kind of treasure-hunt thrill -- is a cache of objects excavated fairly recently from tombs in Central Asia and belonging to non-Scythian people whose identity is something of a mystery.
The 45 m long trench excavated across the scarp and bench situated at the head of the non reactivated portion of El Vertedero translational slide reveals that: (1) The landslide is older than 38 ka.
Persistence was highest (median > 10 years) for non-excavated cavities in live trunks of healthy trees, and increased with tree size and species-specific wood density.
Atrazine and fluometuron concentrations in the first (shallower, non-excavated) cell averaged 12- and 20-fold greater, respectively, than those in the second cell following simulated runoff, indicating entrapment in the first cell.
Sixty skeletons were excavated.
