Can't help you, but what a great quote!  Being a curatorial type, not an
archeologist, could you tell me who Bjorn Kurtin is/was?  Thanks!
 
Vivian Lea Stevens
 
K. Kris Hirst wrote:
>
> Pardon the cross-listings. A colleague is finishing up a book manuscript,
> and wants to use the following quote as part of the introduction.
> Unfortunately, she has inadvertently lost the complete citation, and is
> hoping that somebody out there might recognize the location.
>
> "None of the dead can rise up and answer our questions. But from all they
> have left behind, their imperishable or slowly dissolving gear, we may
> perhaps hear voices, which only now are able to whisper, when everything
> else is become silent."
>         Bjorn Kurtin
>
> Can anybody help out?
>
> kris
>
> Kris Hirst
> Office of the State Archaeologist
> The University of Iowa
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