Archaeology Quote by Margaret Murray

In a simple direct sense, archaeology is a science that must be lived, must be "seasoned with humanity." Dead archaeology is the driest dust…

— Mortimer Wheeler

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 can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past - not…

— Alice Roberts

The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any…

— David George Hogarth

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

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide…

— Margaret Murray

“Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of questioning anything…

— Graham Hancock

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

— Mortimer Wheeler

I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how the past…

— Graham Hancock

“History is the archaeology of the present and future.”

— Patrick Mendis

“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

“In a manner of speaking, the fact that humankind itself is unpredictable is the quintessential stumbling-block for archaeologists. We have to assume that the…

— Laurence Flanagan