Archaeology Quote by Naomi Mitchison

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

I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical…

— James Welch

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 book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in…

— Anita Desai

As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their…

— Henry Ford

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation…

— Jean M. Auel

I'm not an historian but I can get interested-obsessively interested-with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent…

— Penelope Lively

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

— Zbigniew Herbert

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

— Doug Scott

If I ever write a book on "How True Is the Bible?" I'll have to start out by saying that archaeology is not the…

— Frank Moore Cross

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.

— Owsley Stanley

“Was the decline and decay of those houses inevitable, absent the political pressure and military conflicts of those times? How do they look now,…

— Shamsur Rahman Faruqi