Excavation

of T5 represented a breakthrough in megaproject management in the United Kingdom. T5 was a succession of high profile projects that involved other disciplines and numerous stakeholders. The construction phase began in September 2002. Prior to the excavation commencement, an archaeological dig was carried out and over 80,000 artefacts were discovered.…

affected Pompeii in many ways. Pompeii was very modern and most of the wealthy Romans would go to it as a vacation spot. The eruption caused lots of damage by covering the whole city with layers of rocks, ash, and toxic fumes. The first official excavations for Pompeii started in 1748 but can go back as far as 1599. Pompeii is a very nice place to live with lots of buildings. Pompeii was an Italian city near the Mediterranean that had a very rich population of 200,000.…

design and narrow down a site to the most promisingly productive areas to excavate to save time and money. Also, once a site is determined can be used to create a desk-based assessment to submit for budgets or to authorities for permits. After excavations commence the data can help make determinations by incorporating it into a Geographic Information System (GIS) which can record and document a site. There…

In 3000 BC, its creators dug a circular bank around the monument that held the bluestones, then 500 years later, the sarsen stones were placed. These excavations also revealed the dead of Stonehenge. In the 1920’s, around 60 human cremation burials were discovered. Unfortunately, during this time era archaeologists believed you couldn't learn anything from cremation, so in 1935 these same bones were reburied…

his excellent excavation skills and field notes. For example, he was fondly nicknamed “Table Top Tom” due to his nearly perfectly flat unit floors. Miller’s eccentric personality made him memorable to his field partners and he is commonly remembered at CAS for his quote: “No one ever really owns the collectibles in one’s collection. We are merely caretakers for future generations.” His love for history and the people in it was evident through his work and typically meticulous excavation styles…

not strong enough to inhibit work, visibility was fair, and most materials were in relatively close proximity. Only when deeper excavation was undergone did the project prove to be slightly more difficult due an influx of sand deposition. An estimated 300,000 artifacts ranging from 2000-pound cannons, to the smallest speck of gold were discovered. Following excavation, attention moved to the recovery and conservation of artifacts from the site. It was still unknown at that time if the wreck…

2008:xlviii; Wilkes, 1992:105). Illyrian assimilation with the Greeks would have led to political, economic, and social gain for many in the province of Epidamnus, Apollonia, as well as with other Greek colonies in the region (Galaty, 2002:120). Excavations occurred from the 1960s to early 2000s, in the modern city of Durrës. Multiple graves were located north of Durrës in the hills known as Kokoman, Dautaj, and Villa. These graves dated from the Greek to early Roman colonial era (Davis, et…

Nicolucci’s efforts were considered pivotal in the nineteenth-century understanding of physical anthropology, until disputed in the later twentieth-century (Lazer, 2009, p.50). Further, Nicolucci stated that the discovery of artwork and paintings in the excavation of Pompeii offered supplementary resources about the anthropology and physiognomy of an ancient Indigenous Pompeiian people, a point illustrated in the text of Conticello, who described various physical components he believed visible…

be seen for a long way off.” (Weksler-Bdolah) Archaeologists have yet to find any sign of the foretold monument. The recent excavation of the site was due to the fact that a modern road was planned to be constructed nearby. The author tells us that Umm el-‘Umdan is located with Modi’in. The town is named Modi’in now to commemorate the Maccabees. During the excavation, there were discoveries of multiple structures dating during different time periods that help identify the site as a Jewish…

Sir Arthur Evans worked as a curator and archaeology professor before leading excavation at a site on the island of Crete. Arthur, however, became famous and well known for his excavation. His findings led to the discovery of an ancient civilization, which also made further discoveries that helped with the ancient Mediterranean world. Evans was an extremely distinguished scholar who…