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The 38 pages that link to Archaeological excavation, each with the reason it gives.

• ArchaeologyRelated: Stratigraphic excavation preserves the relationships among objects, structures, and layers.

• Archaeological contextRelated: Excavation exposes contexts while progressively destroying their physical arrangement.

• StratigraphyRelated: Excavation exposes and documents the layer relationships stratigraphy interprets.

• Archaeological stratigraphyRelated: Excavation exposes the contacts and sequences that stratigraphic interpretation depends on.

• Archaeological conservationNarrower topic: Excavation exposes materials to new conditions and can make conservation urgent.

• Archaeological surveyCompared with: Excavation exposes stratified evidence, while survey usually records remains without removing them.

• BurrowRelated: Claws, teeth, limbs, or the head move soil to create a burrow's passages and chambers.

• Archaeological Survey of IndiaRelated: Excavation is one way the Survey investigates archaeological sites.

• Archaeological siteRelated: Excavation exposes buried remains but removes the deposits that contain them.

• Egyptian archaeologyNarrower topic: Excavation is the principal means of recovering Egyptian remains with their contexts documented.

• Howard CarterNarrower topic: Carter’s work turned the tomb’s discovery into a documented archaeological record.

• Mary LeakeyRelated: Careful excavation preserved the locations and relationships of Olduvai finds.

• Archaeological lootingCompared with: Excavation records the sequence and context that looting typically destroys.

• Maya archaeologyRelated: Excavation reveals construction sequences, occupation layers, and artifacts at Maya sites.

• NewgrangeRelated: Excavation revealed Newgrange’s chamber and informed its later reconstruction.

• Skara BraeNarrower topic: Excavation revealed Skara Brae’s buried houses and documented their arrangement.

• Willem de KooningBroader topic: It shows how he could make a densely layered abstraction without a central figure.

• Austen Henry LayardNarrower topic: Layard’s work combined large-scale digging with the documentation of buildings and objects.

• Heinrich SchliemannNarrower topic: His large-scale digging illustrates both the reach and risks of nineteenth-century excavation.

• BoreholeCompared with: Unlike a borehole, an excavation is generally open and much wider.

• TellRelated: Excavation exposes a tell’s buried structures and occupation layers in sequence.

• Arthur EvansNarrower topic: Evans’s work at Knossos used excavation to reveal successive buildings and artifacts.

• Chinese archaeologyNarrower topic: Stratigraphic excavation establishes where Chinese finds occurred and how they relate in time.

• Sutton HooRelated: The 1939 dig documented the ship impression and its contents before they could be lost.

• Rock shelterRelated: Excavation reveals occupation layers and objects preserved beneath shelter floors.

• Winged Victory of SamothraceRelated: French excavations uncovered the statue’s main figure in 1863.

• Mortimer WheelerNarrower topic: His career helped establish excavation as a disciplined, publicly visible form of archaeological research.

• Prehistoric archaeologyRelated: Stratigraphic excavation preserves the associations that give prehistoric finds their meaning.

• Soil vapor extractionCompared with: Excavation removes soil directly, whereas vapor extraction treats it in place.

• LybiidaeRelated: Many barbets excavate nest cavities in trees or dead wood.

• NaturalRelated: Excavators may continue downward until reaching the natural.

• Zheng ZhenduoRelated: Zheng’s archaeological work applied organized research to material evidence of China’s past.

• Forensic geophysicsCompared with: Excavation can verify a target but is destructive; geophysics surveys without digging.

• Josef SzombathyNarrower topic: Szombathy’s Willendorf work exemplified early systematic excavation of a Paleolithic site.

• PickaxeRelated: Pickaxes loosen material where shovels and other tools cannot readily penetrate.

• BanpoRelated: Banpo’s modern significance began with excavation that documented its features and artifacts.

• Philippa LangleyNarrower topic: Excavation tested whether the predicted site contained the friary and the king’s grave.

• Rock-hewn churchesRelated: Excavation can expose a church’s exterior while leaving its mass joined to the ground.