Quotes

Hear are some Quotes about Archaeology from Near and Far- enjoy!

archeology is now much more than "a cross between garderning and antiquarianism" (Parker-Pearson,m. 1998, 681)

"archaeology is the new rock 'n' roll" (tony robinson, 2006 interveiw)

"if you want to be a good archaeologist you need to get out of the libary" (indiana jone and the crystal skull)

"That was so Boring"- Harry Bush (When the Lecturer was right next to him!) BUAS Publicity-2008-???

"Archaeology is Not a science- It's a Vendetta." Sir Mortimer Wheeler

"I believe that the poor chap of Tollund commited suicide because he could stand his wife's cooking no Longer!" Mortimer Wheeler on Tollund Man

"They were dead, They had been dead a long time- and they were going to be dead a long Time. They're Still Dead!" Mortimer Wheeler on remains found at Maiden Castle in Dorset

"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been." James Bishop- American Journalist

"Who controls the past controls the future: Who controls the present controls the past."-George Orwell-1984

"Pottery is the Human Fossil, so widely is it distributed," Pitt Rivers

"Those were the great days of excavating... anything to which a fancy was taken, from a scarab to an obelisk, was just appropriated, and if there was a difference with a brother excavator, one laid for him with a gun." Howard Carter talking about archaeology in the twenties.

"Seventy percent of all Archaeology is done in the Library"- Indiana Jones- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

"It is Pointing in the direction of Lord Herefords Knob"-Andrew Fleming (Abrieviated)