Beyond the horizon Quote by Julia Glass

“Engage in a loving archaeological dig back to yourself. Let all that is not yours within you fall away until only your real nature…

— Jewel

“That was how history worked, wasn't it? If it wasn't written down it never existed. You might leave behind jewelry and pottery, ornamental tombs,…

— Kate Atkinson

“The story of our human lineage is continually enlarged, almost daily, by discoveries from physical anthropology, archeology, and genetics.”

— Richard J. Borden

“Our bodies and minds are the current manifestations of a transhuman heritage. We are the burgeoning borders of life, along with every other living…

— Richard J. Borden

I've become an accidental anthropologist.

— Jeremy Wade

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

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

“Good historians...have the future in their bones”

— Edward Hallett Carr

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that…

— Louise Leakey

“Fossils are one of the major lines of evidence that we use to understand ourselves.”

— Neil Shubin

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

— Toba Beta

“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

“The places paleontologists looked for fossils and how those fossils have been interpreted have been influenced by politics and culture, reminding us that while…

— Brian Switek