Quotes About Archaeology

Ahora tenemos la evidencia aceptada de que necesariamente tuvo que haber alguien en la Tierra de una civilización muy desarrollada al menos hace 10,000 años.

Os físicos, assim como os arqueólogos, dão as costas para a verdade se ela representar uma mudança muito radical e veloz.

As anyone who has watched Time Team will know, the context is all in archaeology.

I think when people think of Pompeii, they think it was just destroyed by the volcano. Yes, it was the eruption of the volcano that eventually caused the pyroclastic surge that swept over Pompeii and destroyed it for good. But also, they had to face the effects of a very extreme earthquake and a tidal wave that swept in from the Bay of Naples.

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.

Though Tikal may have been settled by at least 600 B.C., most of the city's edifices were built during what is called the Classic period of Maya history, from A.D. 250 to 900.

Once archaeologists have shown possible 'new' ancient features, they can import the data into their iPads and take it to the field to do survey or excavation work. Technology doesn't mean we aren't digging in the dirt anymore - it's just that we know better where to dig.

5,000–3,000 BC)

IT'S INDIANA, 1990. Here, five years is a generation, fifty is archaeology, and anything older shades off into legend. And yet, places remember what people forget.

The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years." "Yeah," I said. "And now they're gone.

We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?

What about King Tut's tomb?" I protested. "That boy king?" Zia rolled her eyes. "Boring. You should see some of the good tombs.

It was like going on an archaeological dig through earlier ages of one's mind. There was a bill from a taxidermist in The Plains, Virginia, for example, for a stuffed fox that I for some reason had felt I desperately needed.

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.

Egypt," Stoker pointed out acidly, "is not filthy. It was once the cradle of civilization. I would suggest you read a book, but I am not entirely certain of your ability to do so.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

Les premiers restes de néandertaliens furent découverts en 1830 dans la caverne d'Engis près de Liège (Belgique) et en 1848 dans la carrière Forbes à Gibraltar.

Le développement de l'encéphale s'est surtout accéléré au cours des derniers 500 000 ans pour donner à Néandertal le plus gros cerveau qu'un hominine ait jamais possédé. Les 1 400 à 1 500 cm3 du cerveau de nombreux néandertaliens dépassent les 1 350 cm3 de la moyenne actuelle.

Les données de la génétique, de la paléontologie et de l'archéologie concourent pour démontrer que l'homme moderne a émergé en Afrique il y a environ 150 000 ans, avant de sortir du continent entre 60 000 et 50 000 ans.

Atticus, Dan is right, Atlantis is a myth." "Everybody was pretty sure Troy was a myth," Jake said. "Until Calvert and Schliemann found it.

What a nice neat deep trench,' I said. 'Er - should Nefret be down in it?' 'She thought she saw a skull,' Ramses said. 'You know how she is about bones.

Emerson bent a tender look upon his son and heir. 'Very well, Ramses; Papa will find you all the dead bodies you want.