var archaeology_quotes = [

[ "To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.",
"Spyridon Marinatos, 1972" ],


[ "[Archaeology is] the discipline with the theory and practice for the recovery of unobservable hominid behavior patterns fron indirect traces in bad samples.",
"David Clarke, 1973" ],

[ "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" ],

[ "It takes very special qualities to devote one's life to problems with no attainable solutions and to poking around in dead people's garbage: Words like 'masochistic', 'nosy,' and 'completely batty' spring to mind.",
"Paul Bahn, 1989" ],


[ "It remains for reflective, socio-political research in archaeology to decipher the present while we unearth the past, and to distinguish the two whenever possible.",
"Joan M. Gero, 1985" ],

[ "An aware, responsible and engaged global archaeology might be a relevant, positive force which recognizes and celebrates difference, diversity and real multivocality.",
"Lynn Meskell, 1998" ],


[ "Third Law of Archaeology: Only the future is immutable; the past is always changing.",
"Andrew Stewart, 1996" ],


[ "The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race.",
"Margaret Murray, 1961" ],

[ "I became an archaeologist because I wanted to drive around in a big Landrover, smoking, cursing, and finding treasure.",
"Carmel Schrire, 1995" ],

[ "We are concerned here with methodical digging for systematic information, not with the upturning of earth in a hunt for the bones of saints and giants or the armoury of heroes, or just plainly for treasure.",
"Mortimer Wheeler, 1954" ],

[ "Field Archaeology is the application of scientific method to the excavation of ancient objects, and it is based on the theory that the historical value of an object depends not so much on the nature of the object itself as on its associations, which only scientific excavation can detect",
"Leonard Woolley, 1961" ],

[ "If there be a connecting theme in the following pages, it is this: an insistence that the archaeologist is digging up, not things, but people.",
"Mortimer Wheeler, 1954" ]

];