What is "recarving"

Usage examples of "recarving".

Moreover, Lehner’s own photogrammetric study has thrown up at least one piece of evidence which is highly suggestive of major recarving: the Sphinx’s head, he writes, is ‘too small’ in proportion to the body.

See also AAAS 1992, for Schoch's views on the recarving of the Sphinx's head.

However, in the course of all the recarving, the wood had been pared down in some places to a precarious extent, and Tremane had been warned to be very careful when sitting on it.