Archaeology History Quotes

#1. It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.

Karl Pilkington

#2. Archaeological discoveries made in Egypt and in the Near East in the past hundred years have opened our eyes to a spiritual and cultural heritage undreamed of by earlier generations.

Samuel Noah Kramer

#3. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

Duff Cooper

#4. Statements that will hold good for all time are difficult to obtain in archaeology. The most that can be done at any one time is to report on the current state of knowledge.

Jennifer K. McArthur

#5. The seed of sin is in us when we are born.

Billy Graham

#6. History may be accurate, but archaeology is precise.

Doug Scott

#7. When you think about archaeology, archaeology is the only field that allows us to tell the story of 99 percent of our history prior to 3,000 B.C. and writing.

Sarah Parcak

#8. History is the archaeology of the present and future.

Patrick Mendis

#9. They went to Italy. Neither of them cared in the smallest degree for sculpture, architecture, painting, archaeology, poetry, history, politics, scenery, languages, or foreigners.

F.M. Mayor

#10. Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#11. Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book!

Jeff Overton

#12. Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Jane Byrne

#13. Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.

Kate Williams

#14. 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

#15. I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided me with the background. It showed me how, possibly, the people lived back then.

Naomi Mitchison

#16. I had no money to start,
For Jack decreed in his pride:
The Caveman's wife didn't work -
It was his job to provide.

A brief reminder right here:
Let men believe they are shrewd,
But even women of old
Embroidered mittens for food.

Joyce Rachelle

#17. 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.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#18. Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

W. H. Auden

#19. I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

Michel Foucault

#20. Biological evidence indicates that man, evolving with his food plants, developed horticulture and agriculture in both hemispheres at a time which may well have reached far back into the Pleistocene.

Russell Lord

#21. Chasing something external to satisfy the internal is a hollow practice. The only thing you can chase is yourself and you are already here!

Tresh An

#22. Procrastination is another form of resistance

Louise Hay

#23. Claritypoint: Choose to trust these two critical truths that are the opposites of the two core fears: 1) Your value is infinite and absolute because life is a classroom. 2) Every experience is your perfect classroom journey.

Kimberly Giles

#24. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.

Gordon Sinclair

#25. 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

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

Michael Rostovtzeff

#27. [ ... ] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the ancient skeletons.

James Henry Breasted