Archaeology profs aren't supernatural minions of a…

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

— Anonymous

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture…

— Edward Sapir

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

— Doug Scott

I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how the past…

— Graham Hancock

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an…

— Nathan Myhrvold

“Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of questioning anything…

— Graham Hancock

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

— Mortimer Wheeler

Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows.

— Mortimer Wheeler

“Aside from criminology, I’d say archaeology has the highest body count.”

— Jarod Kintz

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want…

— Jim Bishop

You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up…

— Griffin Jay

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and…

— Anonymous

On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally…

— Helen Kieran Reilly

Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly…

— Anonymous

Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by…

— Augustus Pitt Rivers