Archaeological Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for… — Paul Virilio
A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles.… — Loren Eiseley
Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel… — Marija Gimbutas
My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted… — Jean M. Auel
Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the… — Agatha Christie
On the whole â€¦ archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has found his respect… — Millar Burrows
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence. — Zahi Hawass
Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the… — Spencer Wells
My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what… — Michelangelo Antonioni
He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence… — Gay Talese
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. — Vicente Fox
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its… — Lascelles Abercrombie
Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the… — Charlie Campbell
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries. — Charlie Campbell
I would really love to go on an archaeological dig. — Megan Fox
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity… — Nathan Myhrvold
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. — Russell Hoban
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… — Sarah Parcak
I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world. — Sarah Parcak
Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical… — Joseph Needham

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