Age Quote by Louis Leakey

“Not for the first time I felt myself confronted by the dizzying possibility that an entire episode in the story of mankind might have…

— Graham Hancock

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

— Louis Leakey

I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from being hunter-gatherers…

— Alice Roberts

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

— Doug Scott

“We know nothing about how those earliest known surface glazes themselves were developed. Nevertheless, we can infer the methods of prehistoric invention by watching…

— Jared Diamond

“Map 2. Locations and dates of agricultural revolutions. The data is contentious, and the map is constantly being redrawn to incorporate the latest archaeological discoveries.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided me with…

— Naomi Mitchison

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

— Pierre Loti

“Ideal to pre-serve fossils are sedimentary rocks: limestones, sandstones, silt-stones, and shales. Compared with volcanic and metamorphic rocks, these are formed by more gentle…

— Neil Shubin

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology…

— Donald Johanson

These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

“The research I present in this book moves within a complex position: palpable tensions exist alongside exciting possibilities. CBPR methodologies emerged from critiques of…

— Sonya Atalay