A collection of pithy quotes from archaeologists or others about the science of archaeology or the mysteries of history and the past and how truly strange a ...

This quotation on who owns the past was taken from Brian Fagan's introduction to the encyclopedic Oxford Companion to Archaeology.

A 1933 quote from historian Charles Austin Beard seems to suggest a source for Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and his hero Hari Seldon.

A quote from Paul Bahn, from his hilarious 1989 book "Bluff your way in archaeology."

archaeology quotations · robert bettinger. Science, and especially archaeology, is always going to be plagued by crackpots and crackpot hypotheses. ...

Tsianina knew little about archaeology, but she was to remember the day she met [Edgar Lee] Hewett ... More Archaeology Quotations. Archaeology Quotations ...

An archaeology quote from Douglas Adams' classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on the historical ... More Archaeology Quotations. Archaeology Quotations ...

Shirley Jackson. 1948. "The Lottery," collected in The Lottery. More Archaeology Quick Tips. More Archaeology Quotations. Archaeology Quotations ...

From her classic article on the measured effects of burrowing animals on archaeological sites, Barbara Bocek describes her results in painful detail.

From TS Eliot's 1920 poem called Gerontion, comes Quote 159, on whispering ambitions of the past.