Art Quote by Ambrose Bierce

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

— Eduardo Galeano

“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.”

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

— Pierre Loti

“The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the aura of…

— Gareth J. Nelson

Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive…

— Roderick Murchison

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation…

— Jean M. Auel

“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.”

— Bryan Sykes

“In these days [1908], when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the…

— Battiscombe G. Gunn

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

Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible…

— Margaret Murray

“There were so many forms of prehistoric technology. Of those, men dig a few which fit into current society.”

— Toba Beta

I've never really seen archaeology as being any different from history. What I love are the stories of human beings that were around 1,000…

— Tony Robinson