0 past simple and past participle of excavate
1 to remove earth that is covering very old objects buried in the ground in order to discover things about the past:
A larger town house that was excavated had a dirt-floor entrance area, equipped with a well and a kitchen sink.
Six cabins excavated to date had all been consciously erased from the landscape by the evictors.
Approximately one-third of the extant deposit was excavated (1.25 m3), resulting in the recovery of 170.6 kg of workshop debris, totaling millions of flakes.
In stark contrast, the termites excavated more frequently and produced longer tunnels at the far end of the second choices.
Active burrows, defined by freshly excavated soil surrounding open entrances, were also counted.
The sampling unit was a monolith of 100 x 100 x 40 cm excavated from each quadrat.
The reconstruction was orchestrated through the collapsing of the sites' post-war present and its desired future on to its excavated and reimagined ancient past.
The percentage is even higher for the artifacts from the final occupation layers of eight extensively excavated structures (5.5%).
