Beginning their work in the area protected by the 1900 sea wall, the archaeologists began to explore.
By the 1980s, archaeologists had reduced the number of possible locations and began limited excavations.
Archaeologists began to investigate the site, and the government announced a plan to buy back items that had been looted.
The archaeologists uncovered a cemetery behind the jail and began a process of identifying the remains.
Archaeologists began to specialize in zooarchaeology, and their numbers increased from there on.
However, in the late twentieth century, various archaeologists began to challenge this assumption, claiming that there was not sufficient evidence to back it up.
During the 1990s archaeologists began to use phylogenetic methods borrowed from Cladistics.
Then the gaunt archaeologist and geologist began rolling up his sleeves.
But as the archaeologists brought their shovels and began to dig, they found the bones of the small victims in profusion.
Archaeologists eventually arrived on the scene and began digging, uncovering two large hillside villas.