Top 86 Quotes About Archaeology
#1. Place is not the background of archaeology - it's the point. As any archaeologist will tell you, context is everything.
#2. Succinctly put, a crime scene is like an archaeology site. If an excavation is botched or bulldozed away, there's no going back.
#3. There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.
#4. 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.
#5. In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.
#6. 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.
#7. 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.
#8. As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
#9. 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.
#10. 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.
#11. 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.
#12. 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.
#13. Archaeology profs aren't supernatural minions of a vengeful goddess," Patricia pointed out.
"Want to bet?
#14. A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.
#15. 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.
#16. 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.
#17. 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.
#18. I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.
#19. 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?'
#20. The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
#21. The archaeology of grief is not ordered. It is more like earth under a spade, turning up things you had forgotten. Surprising things come to light: not simply memories, but states of mind, emotions, older ways of seeing the world.
#22. We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
#23. 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.
#24. Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.
#25. A worldwide flood destroyed all life on earth about five thousand years ago requires denying an immense amount of generally accepted knowledge - from astronomy, physics, geology, paleontology, anthropology, archaeology, biology, cave paintings, and more.
#26. 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.
#27. In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
#28. American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.
#29. 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.
#30. Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
#31. Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring.
#32. I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.
#33. From the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard came a note from Professor F. W. Putnam, rapturous in his commendation of "your great work.
#34. 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.
#35. I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.
#36. I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
#37. Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is memory but near and far events spread and smoothed beneath the present's surface.
#38. it was at Pompeii, nonetheless, that archaeology was born. It was to come of age in Egypt. Once
#39. 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.
#40. We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.
#41. There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.
#42. I was thinking recently, I've always loved the ocean. If I could do it all again, I might do an oceanography degree. You can do ocean archaeology, and I thought that might be fascinating to do - man-made structures, where the sea has risen above the structures.
#43. Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.
#44. 'Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features.
#45. Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.
#46. Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents ...
#47. 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.
#48. 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.
#49. 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.
#50. When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
#51. The conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archaeology.
#52. Archaeology digs the Bible's grave.
#53. Palaeontology and archaeology and other skulduggery were not subjects that interested wizards. Things are buried for a reason, they considered. There's no point in wondering what it was. Don't go digging things up in case they won't let you bury them again.
#54. For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.
#55. Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.
#56. Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
#57. Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.
#58. They went to Italy. Neither of them cared in the smallest degree for sculpture, architecture, painting, archaeology, poetry, history, politics, scenery, languages, or foreigners.
#59. There's even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology.
#60. History is the archaeology of the present and future.
#61. 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.
#62. I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.
#63. It would be ironic for an archaeologist to catch something nasty from the past, perhaps the ultimate in experimental archaeology!
#64. History may be accurate, but archaeology is precise.
#65. 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.
#66. 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.
#67. Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
#68. [ ... ] 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.
#69. Petra is a brilliant display of man's artistry in turning barren rock into a majestic wonder.
#70. Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?
#71. We all have a god and a poet inside us. The poet, the human; the god, the divine.
It is by the grace of our god that we can find the divine inspiration with which to wax poetic about our human experiences.
#72. 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.
#73. He was not trained in conservation - he was, after all, no more than an archaeologist - a digger!
#74. Elizabeth sank into the leather wing chair in the library of her mind and began to read.
#75. Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.
#76. 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.
#77. We should tell forensics that the murder weapon may be archaeological," I said.
"Archaeological?" asked Seawoll.
"Could be," I said.
"Is that your professional opinion?"
"Yes.
#78. I'm not reinventing myself. I'm finding myself. There's a difference!
#79. They couldn't turn back time. What was done, was done.
He dropped his arms and lowered his head. Despondency filled him to the very brim. He was a dragon. A creature of magic and fire. A being that was lethal and dangerous.
The Kings had forgotten that. All but one.
#80. If you find that you're going through hell, keep moving. You will get to the end eventually.
#81. Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.
#82. 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.
#83. Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
#84. 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.
#85. What's it mean; are you determined
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind.
#86. Eventually someone will find out the truth. It could be you.
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