Quotes About Archaeologists

#1. 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.

Sarah Parcak

#2. Archaeologists of the soul never return empty-handed.

Anais Nin

#3. The archaeologists of the future will find themselves excavating heaps of our discarded junk, picking through mountains of DVDs and yoghurt pots and wondering: "who the fuck were these idiots?

Chris Thomas

#4. Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology.

Sarah Parcak

#5. When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

Douglas Coupland

#6. I've learned that it helps when you're in love with a mummy to pay attention to little things like curses, adder stones, and long-winded archaeologists.

Colleen Houck

#7. Apparently we need snakes. They don't just hiss, bite and hamper maverick archaeologists. They're

David Mitchell

#8. It is oddly ironic that capitalist archaeologists made the mode of production central to their definition of the Neolithic, and Marxist archaeologists ignored it.

David W. Anthony

#9. St. Augustine accepted a date of about 5000 B.C. for the Creation of the universe according to the book of Genesis. (It is interesting that this is not so far from the end of the last Ice Age, about 10,000 B.C., which is when archaeologists tell us that civilization really began.)

Stephen Hawking

#10. 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

#11. Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat?

Paul Russell

#12. Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.

Agatha Christie

#13. The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#14. 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

#15. Archaeologists use datasets from NASA and commercial satellites, processing the information using various off-the-shelf computer programs. These datasets allow us to see beyond the visible part of the light spectrum into the near, middle, and far infrared.

Sarah Parcak

#16. Instantly, there had been cries of protest from the industrial archaeologists, outraged at such vandalism, and from the naturalists, who pointed out that the penguins simply loved the abandoned pipeline.

Arthur C. Clarke

#17. It is from Italy that we are flinging this to the world, our manifesto of burning and overwhelming violence, with which we today establish " Futurism ," for we intend to free this nation from its fetid cancer of professors, archaeologists, tour guides, and antiquarians.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

#18. Yesterday in Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II ... Fifty children! What I want to know is, who decided to name a condom after this guy?

Conan O'Brien

#19. Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.

Stephen Kinzer

#20. When a wall is slowly covered over by earth, the materials it's made from decay and become part of the soils around and above it, sometimes causing vegetation above and next to the wall to grow faster or slower. Satellite imagery helps archaeologists to pick up these subtle changes.

Sarah Parcak

#21. In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

Louise Bernikow

#22. As I leafed through the book in front of me and watched the dust swirl in the air, I wondered if maybe there was some evil dormant virus in the pages that would infect me, like the mummy dust that used to kill archaeologists. Death by research. That was not a glorious end.

Rachel Caine

#23. Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

Kazimir Malevich

#24. Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

John Agar

#25. When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

John Barrymore

#26. Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.

Peter Scott

#27. Seeing sites and features in places where we never looked or never thought things might exist is causing archaeologists across the world to think deeper about their sites or entire cultures.

Sarah Parcak

#28. How you are in this place that has been sealed since the time of Caesar Augustus?" one of the archaeologists demanded in amazement.
"I was looking for my sister," Dan quipped.
"Your sister?"
"Oh - here she is." Dan reached through the opening and hauled out an equally grubby Amy.

Gordon Korman

#29. Perhaps it's not a matter of unimportant sites, but unimportant archaeologists.

Douglas Preston

#30. But, Miss Spencer, I should strike a note of caution. I know there have been women archaeologists in Greece, in Turkey. Even Egypt. But this is Peshawar. Pathan men don't much like the idea of women ... '
'Don't much like the idea of women doing what?'
'Don't much like the idea of women.

Kamila Shamsie

#31. Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists ... but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

Lafcadio Hearn

#32. Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s.

Sarah Parcak

#33. We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.

Serj Tankian

#34. Unfortunately life has a way of sidetracking one's greatest ambitions. Painters, would-be artists, end up whitewashing walls. Sculptors are forced to design toilets. Writers become critics or publicists. Archaeologists, like myself, can become gravediggers.

Salman Rushdie

#35. I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Sarah Parcak

#36. We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world

Yosef Abramowitz

#37. No outsider was allowed in the station except wives of the higher officers and a few friends. Where was Harriet in all this excitement? In the station, taking the train with the troops to Piraeus.

Mary Allsebrook