For is it not, these days, a defining characteristic of real science that it is testable? ... That archaeological science should sometimes give wrong answers, and that these can later be shown to be indeed erroneous, must be counted one of the subject's great strengths.
Source
Colin Renfrew 1992. The identity and future of archaeological science. In A.M. Pollard (ed). New Developments in Archaeological Science. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
via: Hirst, KK. 2009. An Archaeologist's Book of Quotations. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek California.
