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re-excavation

noun

Etymology

From re- + excavation.

  1. derived from *ḱewh₁-✻
  2. borrowed from excavātiō
  3. prefixed as re-excavation — “re + excavation”

Definitions

  1. A repeated excavation

    • Olsen (1968) describes some of the methods used in the re-excavation of the Viking fortress at Trelleborg, first excavated between 1934 and 1943 (Norland 1948).
    • Re-excavation of mass graves is an important area of investigation.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for re-excavation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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