0 present 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:
Excavating was elevated into an art, with the indeed convenient 'quadrant method' as the most prominent example.
The number of tunnels was determined as the number of points where termites were excavating.
When viewed from the pulmonary aspect, the opening was ovalshaped, with its lower margin excavating into the pulmonary sinus.
Excavating below the level of the niche, they found more than 10 stratigraphic levels.
Excavating eastward from the main skeleton, this team encountered the crocodile skeleton.
Buying clay from the merchants offers the advantage of saving time; traveling to the source, plus excavating and loading the clay, takes one full day.
Inevitably, the increasing market-orientation of archaeology will also lead to forms of commercialization in the business of excavating.
Perhaps the concern went deeper, excavating an anxiety about acceptance in the modern world.
