The indoor market was demolished in 2015, with the cleared space now allowing wider excavation work to take place.
Yet The Stranger's Child, with its wider canvas, excavation of the past and rumination on whether we can ever really establish the truth, does mark a new chapter.
Starting in 1885, French archaeologists carried out wide-ranging excavations there.
"For wide-scale excavations to continue, at least some of these houses will have to be removed," Pappi said.
Construction of a stepwell typically involved not just boring a deep hole from which water could be drawn but the careful placement of a wide, stone-lined, sloping excavation that, once a long staircase and side ledges had been embedded, allowed access to the ever-fluctuating level of the water, which flowed through an opening in the well cylinder.
Model simulations are compared to field observations made at Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands (Ford et al., 2013a), at a 75-m-wide fringing reef flat with a 17-m-wide, 4-m-deep excavation pit and at an adjacent unmodified reef flat.
Such a widely changing and uncertain excavation environment may lead to wide variation in the state of stress and deformation of the tunnel structure along the longitudinal direction.
Drilling and blasting is a preferred method of rock excavation world-wide due to low initial investment, cheap explosive energy, easy acceptability among the blasting engineers and, possibility to deal with different shapes and sizes of openings.
The basic unit, as has been learned from excavation, was a wide, framed, compartmented longhouse with a steep, thatched roof.
And its wide distribution, combined with uncontrolled excavation, has made it almost impossible to date precisely, or to assign an exact place of origin.
