Quotes About Archaeology

Archaeologists have discovered sites where entire herds were butchered annually in such ways. There are even sites where fences and obstacles were erected in order to create artificial traps and slaughtering grounds.

The last one ran from about 75,000 to 15,000 years ago.

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We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.

Not only is the archaeological record incomplete, but it has been sifted largely by male archaeologists, wearing the blinkers of patriarchy, assuming that monotheism represented an advance over polytheism and paganism, and seeking to justify the holy books upon which their patriarchal civilization was based.

Before doing fieldwork in Middle Egypt, I analyzed satellite imagery to determine exactly where I wanted to go. Within three weeks, I found about 70 sites. If I had approached this as a traditional foot survey, it would have taken me three and a half years.

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock.

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

Fingerprints of the Gods

Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.

Bones and rocks are eloquent storytellers, if you know how to listen to them.

Relations with the Patagonian giants deteriorated when a European scouting party unearthed a cache of Indian weapons.

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

was found to be full of shreds of papyrus inscribed with Greek characters Ã¢â'¬Â¦ They seem to have formed the contents of the office of some public scribe, which have been dispersed and scattered by the wind over the adjoining desert.

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

Archaeologists now feel certain that eastern and southern Africa provide the world's earliest and most continuous record of human evolution. If so, then this history includes what is arguably some of humankind's earliest food production.