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The purpose wasn't to push it out of the way; the purpose was to make a crater to excavate the material and see what was underneath the surface of this comet, which we learned quite a bit about.
At Calvert’s invitation, Schliemann visited the grounds in 1868, and decided to excavate.
When we had to excavate this enormous hilltop and a bulldozer was expensive and hard to get to site, Bruce suggested doing it by hand, using a method in Rwanda called "Ubudehe," which means "community works for the community."
We begin to excavate them.
This means I use satellite images and process them using algorithms, and look at subtle differences in the light spectrum that indicate buried things under the ground that I get to go excavate and survey.
All the archaeologists with whom we share your discoveries will take you with them as they begin to excavate them, by using Periscope, Google Plus and social media.
When we then find something very important, like the bones of a human ancestor, we begin to excavate it extremely carefully and slowly, using dental picks and fine paintbrushes.
To be able to excavate the 80 tons of dinosaurs that we have in the Sahara and take them out, you really have to put together an expedition team that can handle the conditions.
Your job is to excavate things like this in the foreground, and make them enter the pages of history.
All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture.
We can either excavate it by hand or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
Then we switch to present day where a team is attempting to excavate the site (the movie's first mistake, but hey those period costumes are expensive and this is a Sci-Fi channel movie).
Last but not least, they excavate the tar pits with a multi-ethnic cast since you simply have to do that nowadays to show false camaraderie between people that given the chance would otherwise destroy each other.
They could excavate specimens on private lands, and on public lands, too, under the supervision of scientists who know how to recover important information about what their surroundings, such as what the rocks say about the fossil when it was alive.
They belong to that species of molluscous perforators which excavate holes in the hardest stone; their shell is rounded at both ends, a feature which is not remarked in the common mussel.