re-excavation

English

Alternative forms

• reexcavation

Etymology

From re- +‎ excavation.

Noun

re-excavation (plural re-excavations)

1. A repeated excavation
   • 1863, Dawson, The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, volume 8, page 122:

     The loess also, in the suburbs and neighbourhood of Liége, occurring at various heights in patches lying at between 20 and 200 feet above the river, cannot be explained without supposing the filling up and re-excavation of the valleys at a period posterior to the washing in of the animal remains into most of the old caverns.

   • 1993, Philip Barker, Techniques of Archaeological Excavation, Psychology Press, page 118:

     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).

   • 2024 July 19, Michael Dawson, War and the Historic Environment: The Effect of Conflict from Front Line Ukraine to Historic Namibia, Taylor & Francis, page 249:

     Re-excavation of mass graves is an important area of investigation.