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 > [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] > <http://archaeology.miningco.com>