Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. — Jim Bishop
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. — Thomas R. Pickering
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. — Thomas Pickering
Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty. — John Agar
Hell, I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you can have with your pants on. — Kent V. Flannery
The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. — Agatha Christie
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. — Ken Burns
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. — Marshall McLuhan
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. — Louis Leakey
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so. — Thor Heyerdahl
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal. — Edward Sapir
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science — Franz Boas
Short Archaeology Quotes
The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?" — Robert Ballard
Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta. — Mortimer Wheeler
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. — Michael Rostovtzeff
History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise. — Doug Scott
We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans. — John Lehman
We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans. — John F. Lehman, Jr.
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge
Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows. — Mortimer Wheeler
Anthropology Quotes
If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it. — Jack Weatherford
The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message. — Edward T. Hall
Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish. — Edward Burnett Tylor
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism. — Toni Morrison
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. — Gregory Bateson
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights. — David Harvey
The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects. — John Dee
If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror. — John Young
To understand markets, you must first understand people; and to understand people, you must first understand history. — Russell Napier
Ancient History Quotes
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt. — Cheikh Anta Diop
Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis. — Frederick Lenz
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude. — Isabel Wilkerson
Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, corroborating the disciples' conviction that they encountered the resurrected Jesus. That's an avalanche of data. — Lee Strobel
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. — Stephen Jay Gould
If the people of the United States come to Iran and see its ancient history and nature of Iran, and the people of Iran go to the United States to see America, this can shorten the walls of mistrust and improve the situation for the future. — Hassan Rouhani
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself. — Anne Rice
Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events? — Samuel M. Shoemaker
Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events? — Sam Shoemaker
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work. — Nancy Spero
Prehistoric Quotes
It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint. — Alfred Wegener
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic. — Keith Haring
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. — Louise Leakey
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. — Louis Leakey
I read that when we hiccup, it’s a remnant of a prehistoric impulse in fish — when your body does something or feels something, it’s a window into your deep intertwined connection to all of these other species and to the history of life. — Tim Urban
Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create. — Macklemore
The Japanese scientists just found a 25,000-year-old mammoth in the ice in Siberia, and they're about to clone it... You think the Japanese of all people would want nothing to do with prehistoric animals after what happened with Godzilla. — Greg Giraldo
Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around. — Jean M. Auel
However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric. — Jane Goodall
Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. — Fernando Botero
Ancient Art Quotes
I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me. — Archilochus
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. — Carol P. Christ
Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms. — Frederick Lenz
Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics. — Frederick Lenz
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. — Jerry Saltz
The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts. — Frederick Lenz
Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts. — Frederick Lenz
All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient. — Paul Beatty
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. — Lao Tzu
A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling. — John F. Carlson
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. — Jean M. Auel
The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice. — Paul Virilio
The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development. — Margaret Murray
It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery. — Zahi Hawass
I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. — Penelope Lively
I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past. — Edward Sapir
My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material. — Jean M. Auel
There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition. — William F. Albright
American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place. — Anthony F. C. Wallace
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove. — David George Hogarth
A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock. — Loren Eiseley
I teach myself archaeology, I teach myself Spanish, and that's because it can be fun, it can be useful. So I keep studying. I read books because I still want to study. I don't want to stop. — Philippe Falardeau
In a simple direct sense, archaeology is a science that must be lived, must be "seasoned with humanity." Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows. — Mortimer Wheeler
Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible. — Charlie Campbell
Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them. — Kent V. Flannery
Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks. ... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence. — Augustus Pitt Rivers
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. — Vincente Fox
Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a welter of flint chips. — Margaret Murray
Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?' — Agatha Christie
You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones. — Griffin Jay
I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig. — Lou Gerstner
We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it. — Frank Moore Cross
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology — Zbigniew Herbert
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always. — Lascelles Abercrombie
The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental. — Charles Thomas Newton
What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live. — Jimenez Lai
I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology. — Robert Polidori
I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology, if you will, when I get a role. I'm so excited to attack a part from every angle of what makes a person a person. — Sara Canning
So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it - the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology. — Spencer Wells
I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting. — Ben Stiller
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence. — Zahi Hawass
Archaeological evidence provides significant help in interpreting the Gospels. In a sense, archaeology is an exegetical tool. To ignore the evidence of archaeology would be almost as irresponsible as making no appeal to the original text. The archaeological evidence is a vital component in the context of Scripture. — Craig A. Evans
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