“Statements that will hold good for all time are difficult to obtain in archaeology. The most that can be done at any… — Jennifer K. McArthur Copy Share Image
“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
“Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology,… — Sara Canning Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You… — Helen Kieran Reilly Copy Share Image
Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has… — Millar Burrows Copy Share Image
The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region.… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed… — Margaret Murray Copy Share Image
“Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
“Meteorology . . . is quite as “scientific” as geology and far more so than archaeology—it actually makes more use of scientific… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“In Scandanavia, 'Iverson finds that the whole spectrum of pollen deposits is altered when (in early Neolithic times) ... the first farmers… — Russell Lord Copy Share Image
We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“The Christian church, the Christian form of worship, was not invented by the fathers of the church. It was all taken in… — G.I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
“THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough. Crumbs… — Anthony Thwaite Copy Share Image
“...as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right… — Jeffrey Boam Copy Share Image
“Biological evidence indicates that man, evolving with his food plants, developed horticulture and agriculture in both hemispheres at a time which may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
I've never really seen archaeology as being any different from history. What I love are the stories of human beings that were… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can… — David George Hogarth Copy Share Image
There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don't get elsewhere. Partly that's to do with the tragedy of the… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided… — Naomi Mitchison Copy Share Image
The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for… — Margaret Murray Copy Share Image
In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Ancient barrows get cleared away. Legislation is pretty much 19th century. Global warming means there is an awful lot of erosion, exposing… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown… — Augustus Pitt Rivers Copy Share Image
Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Until humans came and made anthills out of these mountains, Diwan Sahib was saying, looking up at the langurs, the land had… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
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