excavated

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Excavated within the Oulad Hamida Formation, Thomas Quarry I is already known for containing the oldest Acheulean tools in north-western Africa, dated to about 1.3 million years ago.

From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2026

Excavated in the late 1970s, the cemetery was once part of Catoctin’s iron smelting and production facility, which relied on the labor of enslaved Africans.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 17, 2024

Excavated from Montana in 2020, the bones were described in the catalog as “well-preserved and quite solid,” and with pathologies that included bite marks and osteoarthritis.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2022

Excavated under controlled conditions from a well-documented series of layers of remains, they were brimming with information about changes in weaving, when these changes occurred—and, quite possibly, why.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2022

Excavated rooms on the acropolis of Sikyatki 643 CXVIII.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter