For those unfamiliar with his work, Dr. Schuller is perhaps one of the most renowned archaeologists of the 20th century. His famous quote justifying the use of dynamite in what many considered an unconscionable situation was responsible for virtually everything we know today about Pescan culture and what subsequently became known as the Bronze Age.
Excavation is destruction.
Complete excavation is total destruction. Schuller on the use of high explosives on Pesco Island.