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: --
All together, 182 sites (577 phase-specific components) were surveyed or excavated.
The next challenge comes with connecting the local with the global expansion of capitalism and with the contemporary local communities whose past is excavated.
Only two production contexts are currently documented (representing less than 1% of all excavated contexts) and are associated exclusively with elite households.
Residential sites (16) have been intensively excavated, including dwellings of the ruling elites, nobles, and commoners.
The supposed elite compound is situated on the west side of the excavated area (houses 1, 3, 11/12/13).
We gave up this idea quickly, as the building had few similarities to residential buildings being excavated in the valley.
The large and complex tunnel systems excavated by termite colonies are formed over many years and are constructed as colonies grow.
The percentage is even higher for the artifacts from the final occupation layers of eight extensively excavated structures (5.5%).
