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In May, excavators began reducing the earthen formation scoop by scoop, loading the soil into oversize trucks that would return it to the pit it was taken from decades ago.
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Jeff Moag, Outside Online, 3 Dec. 2024
Now, that last remaining earthen structure, Sugarloaf Mound, is closer to being back in the hands of the Osage Nation.
—Jim Salter, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2024
Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what is now the nation of Belize.
—Christina Larson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2024
After six weeks of searching, and using a tip from a confidential informant, the men’s bodies were found buried in an earthen dam, near where Mississippi’s power brokers were about to gather for the annual Neshoba County Fair.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Jeff Moag, Outside Online, 3 Dec. 2024
Now, that last remaining earthen structure, Sugarloaf Mound, is closer to being back in the hands of the Osage Nation.
—Jim Salter, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2024
Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what is now the nation of Belize.
—Christina Larson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2024
After six weeks of searching, and using a tip from a confidential informant, the men’s bodies were found buried in an earthen dam, near where Mississippi’s power brokers were about to gather for the annual Neshoba County Fair.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Earthen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/earthen. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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