If anyone were to ask me why I have spent my life studying prehistory, I would only say that I have remained under the spell of a subject which seeks to discover how we became human beings endowed with minds and souls before we had learned to write.
Grahame Clark. 1993. A Path to Prehistory. Cited in Brian Fagan's Grahame Clark: An Intellectual Biography of an Archaeologist. 2001. Westview Press.
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