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Example sentences for: excavation

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Vault 2, opened in 1994, is an excavation in progress.
This excavation at Zhoukoudian, estimated to be 500,000–690,000 years old, constituted one of the major chapters in modern paleontology, since it was the first evidence that early man (Homo erectus) might have evolved in Asia as well as Africa.
He began digging in 1900 after buying the site and financing the excavation program with his own money, and almost immediately struck the first building blocks of a huge Bronze Age palace replete with magnificent pottery and other artifacts.
Paralleling RGC loss, optic nerve head excavation or cupping was also more severe and more frequent (P < 0.0001, Chi-square) in AKXD28 than D2 mice.
It was rediscovered in 1594 by an architect building an aqueduct, but excavation did not begin until 1748 under the Bourbons, making a tremendous impact on the rest of Europe.