test excavation in a sentence

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1. Test excavations were conducted in 1997, and wide-scope horizontal excavations took place in 1998 and 1999.
2. In 1949 Philip Phillips, Paul Gebhard and Nick Zeigler began performing test excavations of the Holly Bluff site.
3. Test excavations were conducted at the Tomotley site that same year in an attempt to locate the historical village.
4. In 2006, an American archaeologist conducted additional test excavations and mapped the site using modern methods of site survey.
5. Later test excavations confirmed this conclusion through the presence of materials dated around 12th century to 17th century C . E.
6. Their test excavations showed that there was limestone on the site, and they apparently considered extending an already functioning limestone quarry.
7. Excavations commenced at Altun Ha after reconnaissance and test excavations were conducted by Pendergast in 1963, and excavation continued through 1971.
8. If initial survey and / or test excavations indicate the presence of an extraordinarily valuable site, the construction may be prohibited entirely.
9. Additionally, the test excavations recovered 12 lithic artifacts, including two broken prismatic blades and 10 flakes resulting from stone tool manufacture.
10. Evidence from test excavations suggests that it was home to about 500 to 800 people for about 22 years ( 1665-1687 ).