Archaeology Quote by Mortimer Wheeler

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

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

Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows.

— Mortimer Wheeler

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

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

— Mortimer Wheeler

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

“Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much…

— Kelli Jae Baeli

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

“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

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

— Michael Ondaatje

“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