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Quotes About Archeology

In fact, the tunnel curves between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations because it was impossible to drill through the mass of skeletal remains buried in Hyde Park.
~ Catharine Arnold
I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.
~ Kerry Greenwood
I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.
~ Jennifer Egan
I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
~ Agatha Christie
La seguii, e constatai che quello scavo era di natura archeologica. Dei pioli conficcati nel terreno erano collegati da una cordicella, per delimitare l'area in cui quei volontarii picconavano il suolo, cercando di fare meno rumore possibile.
~ Jasper Fforde
glittering mortuary masks, items harvested from ruins and tombs all over Mexico.
~ Paul Theroux
Then imagine with me a moment that God is not alone. It is possible that He presides over more than just man? There are a number of archeological wonders about the world leading one to believe that more than just mortal man and beast have walked this earth.
~ Unknown
But this 'structural' or concrete a priori is neither a Kantian category nor even a Hegelian idea; it is the universal ground of sense=the sense funally, far fro, being an idea, is a ground. Philosophy seeks in the archeology of the ground, in the depth and not in the height (the ideas)...the ground in the literal sense: the earth.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
there is a sense in which literacy actually distorts the archeological record, for while it illuminates the centers of civilization, it makes the darkness surrounding even darker.
~ Unknown