In Monmouth County, volunteers with metal detectors have devoted thousands of hours to excavating a famous battlefield.
In addition to excavating many architectural remains and artifacts valuable in helping delineate the city's history, Schaeffer found hundreds of clay tablets bearing cuneiform inscriptions.
This may be the point, of course, but it doesn't really feel like it: much attention is devoted to excavating their fractious relationship to no very insightful extent.
What's surprising is that when it comes to excavating basements, the presence of a great deal of water isn't a reason to give up.
"Justice for Natalee Holloway" and the first half-hour of "Vanished" devote themselves to excavating the cruelties of Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch student among those last seen with Natalee.
They laid the blueprint for hip-hop's second wave of bohemianism in the mid-1990s, and with their commitment to excavating and preserving the genre's history through reproduction, they helped enact the idea of hip-hop as intellectual pursuit.
