Sentences with phrase «destroying excavation sites»

Unlike paleontologists and archaeologists, who condemn amateur hunters and merchants for destroying excavation sites, many meteoriticists see the commercial traffic in meteorites as a boon — even a necessity — to science.

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The problem is that excavation destroys sites, and we're in a crisis of sorts — as serious or more serious than deforestation — because while you can regrow trees, you sure can't regrow archaeological sites.

This is an 8 month excavation of a settlement at the site that was destroyed by fire, causing it to collapse into a river channel, preserving the contents in situ.