The state has no plans to excavate the Cambridge site, making research like Butz's important.
East African elephants routinely excavate caves to reach iodine-rich salt deposits buried in hillsides.
Archaeologists working on the footprints site helped him carefully excavate the tusk, which weighed 6lbs (2.7kg).
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Conservationists are undertaking a 10-year project to excavate and survey 18 of the oldest churches in Somerset.
Officials plan to excavate the Emperor's tomb, which lies under a hill about a kilometer from the museum.
Diggers have been brought in to excavate about 90 pits, which will be dug to a depth of two metres.
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"Until we excavate everything around the concrete encasement we can't say definitively that it hasn't leaked out into the soil, " she said.
But there are, according to Mr Henshilwood, many more caves to explore and excavate near Blombos, so more art may turn up.
He persuaded North Ayrshire Council to petition a court for permission to excavate part of the cemetery suspected of being a mass grave.
Guadalupe Zetina of the Tajin archaeological site said they would now proceed to excavate parts of the site to further investigate the find.
Police have been using mechanical diggers to excavate the corner of a field near the Oxfordshire-Gloucestershire border in their hunt for the second body.
The National Trust owns the land and granted permission for the museum to excavate the remains, thought to be around 128 million years old.
"In Scandinavian countries, just one company will come and excavate the bore-hole, do the design, commissioning and plumbing - the whole thing, " he observed.
They found enough evidence to excavate -- evidence of possible remains at three of the same places where his cadaver dog alerted, Dostie says.
Later, Ed tells me that his company also offers a gentler package, known as Excavate and Exfoliate, in which the gun range is substituted for a spa treatment.
Makes you wonder what the literal half-life of afterlife kitsch is and what future archaeologists will make of it when they excavate a landfill in A.D. 5010.
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Just a few days before the stock market began collapsing last September, the Aikmans hired a contractor to chop down trees and excavate a pond by their home.
Her department gets called in to excavate, evaluate and then finally offer a solution where both the antiquities can be protected and the construction work can go on.
"The important thing for us is seeing what's there and having the opportunity to excavate it well in advance and record the information before it gets lost, " Phillip said.
But in the next four years he had the pleasure of proving them wrong--and showing how an STM could virtually excavate the structure of materials such as semiconductors and superconductors.
Nadel points to Ohalo, a site he excavated near the Sea of Galilee that had been submerged for 20, 000 years before a drop in water level made it easy to excavate.
"People working here can't travel for training outside and we are only able to use local tools, which don't allow us to excavate in a precise manner, " Ms Albetar said .
The research, carried out after several years of surveying sea bottom and trial trenching, was devoted to set up a fixed network, to document the site and to excavate the shipwreck.
Nadel points to Ohalo II, a site he excavated near the Sea of Galilee that had been submerged for 23, 000 years before a drop in water level made it easy to excavate.
What she remembered most about her mother was the patchouli scent of her skin, underneath which hid a more elusive, dirty smell, an odor that Candy yearned to excavate whenever Sylvie was near.
They could then identify and focus on areas of interest, decide what to excavate and determine what to leave behind for future generations of their profession, who will have even cleverer gadgets at their disposal.
They will have to excavate it, before trying to puzzle out why a Feudal Japanese warrior is standing next to what appears to be an American cheerleader dressed as a Rhinemaiden, who is nonetheless in some way a Greek warrior woman.
Barker Ranch is located on federal land but the decision whether to do a follow-up dig is up to the Inyo County Sheriff's Department, which wanted do more testing -- including sonar readings -- before spending the time and money to excavate.
The team this season will continue to excavate and survey other unsurveyed areas of the Sacred Garden in the South, in order to investigate the character and sequence of development, so that appropriate placing of pilgrim facilities may be made without damaging important archaeological resources.
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