What is "unexcavated"

Usage examples of "unexcavated".

Like columns of dust, countless pillars of unexcavated earth rose up, supporting a dirt sky, which hung low over the penumbral hamlet.

Somewhere above us there must be an unexcavated chamber that holds the surface opening to this cavern.

I had ordered this infra-red film to experiment with photographing the unexcavated foundations of the city from the top of the cliffs, but the results had not been encouraging.

I undertook solitary terrifying voyages, hardly knowing my clutch from my elbow, driving down to Bernalillo, up to Farm-ington, over to the Rio Puerco country, even making a vast expedition out to Hopi, going to all sorts of places where, in violation of local archaeological ordinances, the farmers raid unexcavated ruined pueblos and winkle out salable merchandise.

Today Maxie Davis was working at BC129, which was the cataloging number assigned to an unexcavated Anasazi site.

I would like to see the 200 unexcavated ancient cities in the area examined by archaeologists before the reservoir fills and they are drowned forever, but this is unlikely to happen.

He looked at one wall and just laughed, declaring that they were not walls at all, just unexcavated earth.

I look back on those times with a degree of nostalgia because of the certainty I felt, because of the arrogance that allowed me to make the assumption that I could wrap my mind around the universe and squeeze forth some crucial and hitherto unexcavated truth.

As yet unexcavated, it is apparently to be studied by a Japanese consortium.

Ahead and, to my left lay the partially unexcavated Pyramid C, a cactus-covered mound about 40 feet high, and farther away were more mounds not yet investigated by archaeologists.

Neptune and Pluto by as yet unexcavated mounds some kilometres farther north.