test excavation in a sentence

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1. At the time of the site's listing on the National Register in 1984, it had only been subjected to test excavations.
2. Clifford has told Madagascar's minister of culture of the find and is seeking permission to perform a test excavation of the watery site.
3. Test excavations in the caves yielded stone tools and animal bones in 300, 000-to 500, 000-year-old sediments.
4. Test excavations conducted at the birthplace site by the Tennessee Division of Archaeology in 1977 failed to locate evidence of an 18th-century cabin.
5. Researches in these sites, respectively, Zhitkoc began in 1958, where several test excavations were carried out near the Starcevo and Vinca cultures.
6. Ohio State Historic Preservation Office staff archaeologists conducted a test excavation of some of the areas surrounding the gutters, discovering foundations of an 1810s tannery.
7. Archeologists have called for urgent test excavations in the area to further date it through other signs of human presence, like tools, bones or charcoal.
8. During a test excavation of the mound and its immediate vicinity, archaeologists from burial mound built over the body of a leading member of Adena society.
9. Between 1987 and 1989, the Department of Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History began excavations by performing test excavations on three properties in the district.
10. In this site various archaeological methods were used such as surface survey and mapping, test excavations, auger sampling and coring, and trenching with a backhoe.