These small, initial pits are a common and effective way to assess what a project area has to offer and how best to proceed with larger-scale excavations. The typical shovel test is about the diameter ...

“Sand is very easy to extract,” said Aurora Torres, a postdoctoral researcher at the Université catholique de Louvain. “If you give a man a shovel and a bucket and a donkey to transport it, he can ...

Over three days and three nights, smelters using ancient techniques shovel roughly 25 tons of iron-bearing river sand and charcoal into the mouth of a tatara, a rectangular clay furnace built ...