Assertion: archaeologist's excavation | /r/HasProperty | destruction
Facets:
value: to a certain extent
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: To a certain extent all excavation is destruction, and the total excavation of a site subsequently engulfed by a housing estate or by gravel digging is total destruction.
text: A key requirement of their role is their recording ability: all archaeologists know that excavation is destruction, and if we do not record what we find (through description, drawing, measuring, collecting, conserving and listing), then knowledge is lost forever.