Fresh excavations to start at largest Harappan site After a gap of 13 years‚ excavation work will start once again at Rakhigarhi‚ estimated to be the largest Harappan civilization site located in Hisar district of Haryana. This early Harappan settlement‚ considered bigger than Mohenjo-daro‚ was listed among the 10 most endangered heritage sites in Asia just last year by the Global Heritage Fund‚ which is‚ incidentally‚ partnering with city-based Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute
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For the structure atop the hill it will be useful to make horizontal excavations as they can show large areas of site to uncover structure plans or settlement layouts. Although we can see the structure with the naked eye‚ there may also be parts of it that we cannot see because of the damage the fires have caused. The horizontal excavation will be 3m x 9m‚ so that we may have an opportunity in finding hidden chambers or rooms underneath the ceremonial structures. It is very likely that we find human
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Construction approaches and design methods of braced excavation walls Group Assignment Contents Overview ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 3 Shallow Trenches ....................................................................
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Explain the clauses in SMM 2 below and give sketches‚ dimensions and typical description in each of the following. Excavation and Earthworks D3 Clearing undergrowth Clearing site of undergrowth‚ bushes‚ scrub and the like and grubbing up their roots‚ which shall be deemed to include their disposal‚ shall given in square meter Before the construction work begin‚ the site must be prepared by clearing the site and grubbing up the roots of undergrowth‚ bushes‚ scrub and any kind of small
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Pompeii in 1784 marked a monumental moment in history with the discovery of a covered town and its secrets of the ancient civilisation buried by the natural disaster‚ the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Following the discovery the process of excavation began over the 19th Century there was an increase in the changing methods used by archaeologists in order to further develop our understanding of the ancient civilisation of Pompeii. Before the 19th Century archaeology was used as way to treasure
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Fiorelli introduced new excavation methods; those succeeded him include August Mau‚ Vittorio Spinazzola and Amendo Maiuri. Now attention has shifted towards conservations and restorations which are reflected in the works of Fausto Zevi and Pier Guzzo. Giuseppe Fiorelli was appointed director of the archaeological site of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 1860 and was the first who introduced top-down excavation which combined discovery with the concept of conservation and began excavations in both cities. Fiorelli
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Over the past years a lot of archaeological and literary evidence has helped us gain a better understanding of the history of Troy. Much hard work has gone into the excavations there by many archaeologists‚ and many interesting artefacts have been found. The story of the Ancient City of Troy is a great one‚ however many people believed it didn’t exist and that Homers Iliad‚ the story of the Trojan War was just some story. This has since been proved untrue as the city of Troy was discovered‚ and the
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Nicholson Construction Company 12 McClane Street Cuddy‚ PA 15031 Telephone: 412-221-4500 Facsimile: 412-221-3127 Diaphragm Walls by Thomas D. Richards‚ Jr. P.E. Nicholson Construction Company‚ Cuddy‚ Pennsylvania Presented at: Central PA Geotechnical Conference Hershey‚ Pennsylvania March 23-25‚ 2006 05-01-145 Diaphragm Walls Thomas D Richards‚ Jr P.E. Nicholson Construction Company Central PA Geotechnical Conference - March 23-25‚ 2005 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to describe
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This was the head tile of the accident which revealed the responsible company was not pursuing the precautionary necessary steps during an excavation for either a sewer line or manhole was undergoing. OSHA defines an excavation as “any man-made cut (cavity) or depression in the earth’s surface formed by earth removal and a trench as a narrow underground excavation that is deeper than it is wide‚ and no wider than 15 ft. at the bottom” (“Occupational safety and health administration‚” 2013). However
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academy. Kathleen is most famous for her excavations in Jericho and Bangalow in 1952-1958‚ the Jewry wall (a substantial ruined wall of a public building of Ratae Corieltauvorum (Roman Leicester)
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