Excavation Collection (page 5)

Bone diggers, Elizabeth Island, Strait of Magellan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Bone digging, Elizabeth Island, Strait of Magellan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Scientists at work

Forbes Quarry, Gibraltar
Forbes Quarry, where a Neanderthal (Archaic human) skull was discovered in 1848. The discovery came eight years before the Neanderthal skeleton was found in the Neander Valley in Germany

Vanguard cave, Gibraltar
Exterior view of Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar which has been excavated by palaeontologists. Discoveries of interest include chert flake tools and charcoal beds

Quarry scene, Tilgate Forest
Quarry scene in the Tilgate Forest, frontispiece from Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex (1827) by G. A. Mantell

Neanderthal excavation, 1998
Palaeoanthropologists from the Natural History Museum, London search for evidence of Neanderthal habitation, 1998

Edmontosaurus regalis skeleton
Fossil skeleton of Edmontosaurus regalis in its death position still half buried in sandstone rock. Dates back to the Upper Cretaceous perido, about 71 million years old. Discovered in Alberta, Canada

Flint tool from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

Pakefield flint tools
Flint tools from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

Flint tools from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

Excavations at Piltdown circa 1913
Charles Dawson (left) and Dr A Smith Woodward (right)

Workers at Piltdown

Sauropod excavation, 1988
Team cleaning exposed elements of the fore and hind limbs of a Sauropod dinosaur in Niger, 1988

Baryonyx excavations
Team from the Natural History Museum, London at work on the excavation of the dinosaur Baryonyx walkeri at the Ockley brick pit in Surrey, England in June 1983

Fossil collecting near Aveley, Essex
Palaeontologists collecting the remains of a woolly mammoth and a straight-tusked elephant from a clay pit near Aveley, Essex in 1964

Excavations at Piltdown c. 1913
Arthur Smith Woodward and the Abbe Henri Breuil at Piltdown

Sperm whale excavation, Natural History Museum, 1938
This sperm whale skull and skeleton arrived in February 1937 from Bridlington, Humberside. Published in Life Through A Lens

Searching for dinosaur fossils, Tendaguru, 1924
A team of scientists from the British Museum of Natural History travelled to Tendaguru, Tanganyika territory, Tanzania after the end of World War One in order to locate and collect dinosaur fossils

Goughs Cave excavation site
Excavations at Goughs cave, Cheddar, Somerset. The site of Goughs Cave was first discovered by R.C. Gough in 1903. It is a limestone cave on the east side of Cheddar Gorge

Excavating at Charmouth
A team of palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum excavating an Ichthyosaur at Charmouth beach. December 2004

Excavating neanderthal remains
Excavation work which featured in a press conference at the Natural History Museum, London, December 1997

Still Searching At Piltdown
A general impression of the Piltdown Gravel Pit, East Sussex c. 1913, with the goose Chipper, and from left to right, Venus Hargreaves, Arthur Smith Woodward, Charles Dawson

Baryonyx laboratory work, 1983
Palaeontologists working on the dinosaur, Baryonyx walkeri. Using a rotary diamond-edged dental saw to groove hard rock around a dinosaur vertebrae

Dinosaur excavation, Niger 1988
Hessian bandage, cut into strips and lightly coated in a thin mixture of plaster, being applied to the tissue covered bone

Baryonyx excavation, 1983
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum, London excavate fossils of Baryonyx walkeri from the crazy paving of blocks that hold the fossils, Surrey, England, 1983

Djebel Kafzeh, Qafzeh Cave, Israel
The cave 2.5 km south of Nazareth, Galilee where fossils of early modern Homo sapiens (Homo sapiens sapiens) were found in 1933 by R. Neuville, in 1935 by R. Neuville & M

Gibraltar excavation
Excavation of Neanderthal fireplace at Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar. (Middle Palaeolithic)

Tabun Cave, Israel
Mugharet et-Tabun, cave in the Wadi el-Mughara, southern part of the Mount Carmel range, excavation site of Homo neanderthalensis

Six million year old elephant excavated during Paleontology field work, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Excavations, Antarctica
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum engage in excavating dinosaur fossils on Vega Island, Antarctica

Excavations, Abu Dhabi
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum, London, excavate an fossil elephant dating back six million years during an expedition to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Excavations, Pakistan
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum, London engage in excavations in Pakistan in search for fossil mammals dating back one million years

6 million year old fossils
Searching for 6 million year old fossils, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Elephant rib
An elephant rib that is approximately 6 million years old. From Paleo field trip, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Excavations, Niger
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum, London prepare the dinosaur fossils for transportation that have just been excavated in Niger, Northwest Africa

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