半: half, semi-, incomplete, (after a number) and a half...
夸奖: to praise, to applaud, to compliment...
苗头: first signs, development (of a situation)...
少见: rare, not familiar (to the speaker), sth rarely experience, hard to see...
出土: to dig up, to appear in an excavation, unearthed, to come up out of the ground...
