excavation site
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- noun
- /ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃən saɪt/
:
sitio de excavación
- At the excavation site, researchers discovered tools used by early humans thousands of years ago.
Examples
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On a normal day, she would already be at the excavation site where the crew of her Helike Project is hard at work.
Academic text (2004) -
The team spent the summer at an excavation site, carefully digging for artifacts that date back to the Roman era.
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" We were on a field trip, looking for excavation sites.
Fiction book (2002) -
The screen showed an excavation site in the late afternoon, mostly covered in tarpaulins as protection against the elements.
Fiction book (2001) -
The place where the World Trade Center stood in New York has become an excavation site filled with rubble that stands six stories high.
Academic text (2001) -
At the excavation site in Scotland, the tunnel leading into the cavern had collapsed.
Fiction book (1994) -
So far, ARMH has recovered the remains of some 520 individuals from 40 excavation sites.
Academic text (2006) -
One excavation site, near the village of Taruga, revealed something else Fagg had not expected: iron furnaces.
Academic text (2011) -
The AIA grant was used to restore the wall, build a new gate, and add a safety fence around the excavation site, thereby ensuring the continuation of the archaeology program.
Academic text (2011) -
During our vacation, we visited an excavation site where archaeologists were uncovering ancient pottery.
Synonyms
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3.9
A place where people remove earth to find old objects
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3.7
A place where people dig to find objects from past human life
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5.4
A hole in the ground made by digging, often for building or finding old things
A place where people dig to find old objects or valuable stones
An area where people dig for minerals or ancient objects
How Big
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place where archaeologists dig' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'excavation' (a dug site) with 'site' (a plot of ground); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer this compound meaning. This is a straightforward noun-noun composition following common cross-linguistic patterns, so no special idiomatic knowledge is required.
Etymology
Excavation site comes from the clear image of a place set aside for digging: excavation means 'digging' and site means 'place'. That's why the phrase describes 'a place where archaeologists dig to uncover historical remains'.