excavation

[US]/ekskə'veɪʃ(ə)n/
[UK]/ˌɛkskə'veʃən/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. digging; cultural artifacts unearthed.

Phrases & Collocations

archaeological excavation

excavation site

excavation equipment

excavation work

underground excavation

deep excavation

rock excavation

excavation depth

earth excavation

Example Sentences

the methods of excavation have to be extremely rigorous.

a small excavation in the river bank

The excavation of the buried city took a long time.

it is not feasible to put most finds from excavations on public display.

excavations have revealed fragmentary remains of masonry.

as the excavation proceeds the visible layers can be recorded and studied.

More discoveries were made as the excavation proceeded.

Using preact grouting to strengthen and improve strata, the safe excavation in the loose stratum with silty sand was achieved.

Declassification of the "affluent poverty" in western rural China should be established on the basis of excavation, cultivation and development of characteristic agricultural resources.

The fracturing process induced by different excavation sequence under final highwall with auger mining was numerically simulated.

Moreover, understructure work's excavation work has not completed by far, perhaps there is hiding the true secret.

Xiesaixie 1830 in the Kurgan?Spurs (Kul Oba) carried out archaeological excavations, the 19th century greatly promote the development of physical anthropology.

Due to the complexity of occurrence condition and the polytropy of influencing factors,the excavation and supporting in soft failure roadway under high ground stress become very difficult.

Results Among 40 patients, 10 cases were found abscess of fallopian tube and ovary and pelvic cavity adhesion, 18 were pyosalpinx, and 12 were rectouterine excavation abscess.

The excavation exposed a staggering number of Bronze Age artifacts. The term can often imply revelation of something better left concealed:

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