Crossword clues for excavation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excavation \Ex`ca*va"tion\, n. [L. excavatio: cf. F. excavation.]
The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. ``A winding excavation.''
--Glover.-
(Engin.)
An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
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The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
The delivery of the excavations at a distance of 250 feet.
--E. L. Corthell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "action of excavating," from Latin excavationem (nominative excavatio) "a hollowing out," noun of action from past participle stem of excavare "to hollow out" (see excavate). Meaning "an excavated place" is from 1779.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass. 2 (context countable English) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. 3 (context countable English) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel. 4 (context countable English) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity. 5 (context uncountable English) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value. 6 (context countable English) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
WordNet
n. the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" [syn: digging, dig]
the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig" [syn: dig, archeological site]
a hole in the ground made by excavating [syn: hole in the ground]
the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth [syn: mining]
Wikipedia
In archaeology, '''excavation '''is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. An excavation site or "dig" is a site being studied. Such a site excavation concerns itself with a specific archaeological site or a connected series of sites, and may be conducted over as little as several weeks to over a number of years.
Numerous specialized techniques each with its particular features are used. Resources and other practical issues do not allow archaeologists to carry out excavations whenever and wherever they choose. These constraints mean many known sites have been deliberately left unexcavated. This is with the intention of preserving them for future generations as well as recognising the role they serve in the communities that live near them.
Excavation involves the recovery of several types of data from a site. These data include artifacts (objects made or modified by humans), features (modifications to the site itself such as post molds, burials, and hearths), ecofacts (evidence for the local environment and resources being used such as snail shells, seeds, and butchered bones) and, most importantly, archaeological context (relationships among the other types of data). Ideally, data from the excavation should suffice to reconstruct the site completely in three-dimensional space.
The presence or absence of archaeological remains can often be suggested by remote sensing, such as ground-penetrating radar. Indeed, grosser information about the development of the site may be drawn from this work but the understanding of finer features usually requires excavation though appropriate use of augering.
Excavation may refer to:
- Digging
- Excavation (archaeology)
- Excavation (medicine)
- Excavation (album), a 2013 album by The Haxan Cloak
- Excavation, a 2000 novel by James Rollins
In medicine, excavation has two meanings:
- the act of hollowing out
- the space hollowed out, or a natural cavity or pouch
Examples of the latter include:
- Rectouterine pouch or excavation, between the uterus and the rectum
- Rectovesical excavation, between the rectum and the male bladder
- Vesicouterine excavation, between the bladder and the uterus in a female
Category:Medical terminology
Excavation is the second studio album by The Haxan Cloak, released on Tri Angle Records on April 16, 2013.
Usage examples of "excavation".
As soon as the caisson was down to its final position and the excavation was completed, concrete was deposited on the uneven rock surfaces, brought up to the line of the water-proofing, and given a smooth 1-in.
In order to resolve the controversy over the age of the eoliths, the British Association, a prestigious scientific society, financed excavations in the high-level Plateau gravels and other localities in close proximity to Ightham.
And after that I abandoned altogether the idea of escaping by excavation.
In this lame cage they were lowered into the excavation, a journey that took them through storage and maintenance areas, restricted sectors, down along porous shale and rock, past timber underpinnings and assemblies of masonry and steel that formed support for subtunnels and emergency access routes, the elevator suddenly dropping into open air, free of its shaft, cabling into the darkness of the inverted cycloid, air currents, oscillation, a bucketing descent through drainage showers and rubble-fall, the cage shaking so badly that Billy sought to convince himself there was a pattern to the vibrations and changes of speed, a hidden consistency, all gaps fillable, the organized drift of serial things passing to continuum.
And so it remained, out of sight and out of mind, until the beginning of the twentieth century, when the archaeologists Flinders Petrie and Margaret Murray began excavations.
The exact position and dimensions of the excavation were relayed to the icebreakers and the Hawkbill, then the containment booms were slowly cinched together with agonizing slowness to avoid losing any portion of the trapped surface water.
Storms on the Mediterranean made a return to Rome inadvisable, work on the Sepulchre had become almost impossible, and when I developed a racking cough that worsened my usual winter breathing problems, Bishop Eusebius suggested that I move down to Jericho, where it was warmer, while he stayed to watch over the excavation.
As soon as they arrived on a planet the Nastic turned its indigenous population over to excavation projects.
But the most important finds have been at Niffer, the ancient Nippur, in Northern Babylonia, where the American expedition has brought to a close its long work of systematic excavation.
We were afraid of him, but we felt that some man had to know, if only to stop Poachy from continuing his excavations.
As Sixsmith said, I wanted to hire someone to prevent the unrest among navvies regarding safety, and stop the toshers, whose territories were disappearing, from becoming violent and disrupting the excavations.
A lark sang, a faint breeze lifted the long grass and in the excavation below the wapentake, sand and gravel fell with a whisper of sound from the grassy overhang.
Yet his excavations have drawn considerable interest in antiquarian circles.
We had bribed a bulldozer operator to scoop out a room-sized excavation, then move the hootch over it so we could enter it without leaving the building.
Later, Masin had helped Malipieri to escape, had followed him into exile, and had been of the greatest use to him during the excavations in Carthage, where he had acted as body- servant, foreman, and often as a trusted friend.