Assertion: archaeology | /r/HasProperty | destructive science
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Archaeology is a destructive science—meaning that once a site is excavated, it is gone forever.
text: Thus, archaeology is often known as a destructive science, where you must destroy the original evidence in order to make observations.
text: Archaeology can be a destructive science for the finite resources of the archaeological record are lost to excavation.
text: Archaeology is a destructive science.
text: Additionally, because archaeology is a destructive science, and we can never put things back the same after they have been excavated or taken, the context is destroyed and vast amounts of information have potentially been lost.