My excavation crew will be back from lunch any minute.

A small excavation crew from the museum remained at the site, in case further discoveries were made in the course of the dam construction.

Last summer the excavation crew, hired by the Army, which administers the site, pumped basin liquid into three million-gallon tanks, where it will be held indefinitely near the basin.

When an excavation crew discovered the eight-foot-thick wall in early November, it was one continuous stretch of cut and mortared stones about 45 feet long, archaeologists familiar with the project said.

Before the developers brought in an excavation crew, they conducted environmental assessments, according to a spokesman, Rich Hohne.

Franko Oreb is a permanent member of the excavation crew and Dinko Radic joined the excavation in 1986.

The next day the sun returned; so did an excavation crew.

The dirtbagger presence as a potential labor crop kept the factory workers and excavation crews sharp.

That was when the first graves were uncovered by archeologists working one step ahead of excavation crews at the construction site of a new Federal office tower.

During the project, Harrington met archaeologist Edgar Lee Hewett and his excavation crew at the Gran Quivira ruins.