A
- Lord Acton on what makes a country truly free.
- Douglas Adams on the importance of subsistence.
- Anonymous movie goers at Raiders of the Last Ark.
- Anonymous on archaeology's greatest contribution.
- Arioti and Oxby on the false opposition between food predation and food production.
- Jane Austen (as Catherine Morland) on the torment of reading history.
B
- Paul G. Bahn on Pleistocene art.
- Paul G. Bahn on bluffing your way to being an archaeologist.
- Zainab Bahrani on looting at the Iraqi National Museum.
- Kage Baker imagines Flinders Petrie
- Chris Ballard on holding out against closure.
- J. G. Ballard on his fears for the future.
- Keith Bassett on the New Intellectual.
- Charles Baudelaire on the pleasure we derive.
- Charles Austin Beard describes Hari Seldon.
- Charles Austin Beard on seeing stars.
- Max Beerbohm on the work of art that is the Past.
- Ruth Benedict on the purpose of anthropology.
- John Berger on the effects of postmodernism.
- Henry Bergson on present effects.
- Robert L. Bettinger on the persistence of crackpots..
- Ambrose Bierce's definition of History.
- Ambrose Bierce defines the Past.
- Lewis Binford on why he'll never be a quote of the week.
- A tip on museum management from Bob & Ray.
- Barbara Bocek on bioturbation.
- Nurit Bird-David on hunter-gatherers.
- Tsianina Blackstone on what good friends archaeologists make.
- Bonnichsen and Steele on why the New World Entrada is so fascinating.
- C. Loring Brace on what's wrong with standardized tests.
- C. Loring Brace et al. on the chimerical concept of race.
- Edward M. Bruner on post-modernist interpretations of tourism.
- Edward Bulwer Lytton on archaeology and historical romances
- Octavia E. Butler (as Lauren Oya Olamina) on letting the past go.
- Lord Byron on the usefulness of the past.
- Calvin on why he'll choose not to be an archaeologist.
- William Calvin on the human mind's Big Bang.
- Howard Carter on the good old days.
- Edward Hallet Carr on history's dialogue.
- John Chapman on the archaeology of war in the Balkans.
- Douglas Charles on wearing different shades.
- Anubha Charan on digging up holy places.
- G. K. Chesterton on the unfinished suburb that is history.
- Cicero on children.
- Geoffrey Clark on NAGPRA's fatal flaw.
- Grahame Clark on wasting one's life.
- David Clarke on the immutability of archaeology..
- Michael Coe on small favors.
- Confucius on diligence.
- Cyril Connolly on the sweet smell of the past.
- Norman Cousins with an alarming metaphor.
- George Cowgill on reasonable alternatives
- Donald Crabtree on the beauty of projectile point technology.
- Susan Crate on climate change and advocacy
- O.G.S. Crawford on the future of archaeology.
C
D
- Glyn Daniel gets a fit of the giggles.
- Clarence Darrow on what is wrong with history.
- Charles Darwin on useful observations.
- Robertston Davies on archaeologists and domestic architecture
- Kathleen Deagan on the ethnic stew that is Latin America.
- Warren DeBoer on experiencing Cahokia archaeology
- Stephen Dedalus (James Joyce) on how he feels about history.
- Emily Dickinson on an armed past.
- Tom Dillehay on the first people in South America.
- Robert A. Dodgshon on the end of time.
- John Dryden on what has been.
- A classic insult from Alexandre Dumas (pere)
- Finley Peter Dunne on why the past looks so good.
- Will Durant on geological consent.
- Will Durant on clever things to say.
E
- Abba Eben on men behaving wisely.
- Albert Einstein on the cosmic religious experiences of science
- Loren Eiseley on melancholy secrets
- T. S. Eliot on history's cunning passages
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on personal preferences.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on the end of the human race.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on what Varnish is not.
- Clark Erickson on appropriate technology and sustainable agriculture.
F
- Brian Fagan on who really owns the past.
- Christine Finn on votive offerings at Chaco Canyon.
- Laurence Flanagan on the rationality of our forebears.
- K. V. Flannery on killing our informants.
- Kent Flannery on fun with your pants on
- Kent Flannery on what the world wants from archaeology
- Lars Fogelin on tempering the imagination.
- Foley and Lahr on sweet studies .
- Henry Ford on why history is bunk.
- Allie Fox on evolution's little joke.
