Archeology Quotes

• Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Art, Knowledge, Science

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• Hell, I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you can have with your pants on.

  Kent V. Flannery

  Fun, Pants, Soil

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• As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

  Michel Foucault

  Men, Invention, Ends

  The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences ch. 10 (1966)

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• We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

  John Lehman

  Ocean, Opening Up, Eras

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• Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number of instances that these views rest on false assumptions and unreal, artificial schemes of historical development. This is a real contribution and not to be minimized.'

  Millar Burrows

  Real, Yale, Views

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• I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

  Bill Wyman

  Photography, Interesting, Hobbies

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• We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Civilization, Taught, Navigation

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• Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari

  Hands, Ecology, Hand In Hand

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• Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

  Herb Pomeroy

  Music, Fun, Clothes

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• I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Museums, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

  Cornel West

  Dark, Roots, Profound

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.17, Basic Books

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• The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

  Jaime Lerner

  Cities, Design, Strange

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• I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976).

  Paul Virilio

  Book, Ideas, Movement

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Book, Research

  Source: ctheory.net

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• We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about say Columbus or for that matter the 20th century. You are a consumer of that information, especially if it’s stuff like Columbus and the American Indians. That information isn’t even in history, much of it. Much of it is in anthropology or archeology.

  James W. Loewen

  War, Special, Information

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Portraits, Machines

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• Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

  Cornel West

  Passion, Dark, Roots

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• You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.

  John Logan

  Art, Philosophy, Drama

  John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.13, Oberon Books

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• We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

  Maureen Duffy

  Morning, Knowledge, Humility

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• Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Writing, Different

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• I think [Wine] will be, at a minimum, incredibly useful to archeology, like DosBox has been for playing Wing Commander. Certainly it has been known to save the day with modern titles, too. But to have it as the agreed-upon way to how you play video games on Linux is completely unacceptable for several reasons, both technical and moral.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Wine, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Luboš Doležel, www.abclinuxu.cz. March 08, 2011.

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• Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

  Allan Bloom

  Communication, Greek, Special

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.

  Weston La Barre

  Men, Stories, Quests

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• SETH said: The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and layers of official beliefs, so you are dealing with an archeology of beliefs to find the person who creates beliefs to begin with. As I have said often, evidence of clairvoyance, telepathy, or whatever, are not eccentric, isolated instances occurring in man's experience, but are representative of natural patterns of everyday behavior that become invisible in your world because of the official picture of behavior and reality.

  Jane Roberts

  Past, Reality, Men

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Magical Approach (A Seth Book): Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living”, p.107, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

  Jennifer Egan

  Ideas, Numbers, Training

  "Pulitzer Prize 2011: Winner Jennifer Egan On The Tedium Of Writing". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2011.

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