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[Archaeology] is like looking for the ghost in the attic."
"How much culture is there in a clay pot anyway."
Adolph Hitler talking about Himmler's interest in archaeology. These
quotes are from the Eva Braun's films that have recently (using a new
computer technology) been lip read for what people are saying as
there was no audio with the original films.
Bob Schuyler
P.S. There must be a good one - or several - from Sir Mortimer Wheeler.
Also: "Beyond the strictly historical." J.C. Harrington in his 1950s article.
At 05:39 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:
>Hi, Kris,
>
>Some I throw out to students in my classes are:
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>"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently
>there." L. P. Hartley
>
>"What is past is prologue." William Shakespeare (or whomever you
>think wrote all those plays and sonnets)
>
>"The past is not dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner
>
>"Shall we never, never get rid of this past? It lies upon the
>present like a giant's dead body." Nathanial Hawthorne
>
>"The distinction between past, present and future is only a
>stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein
>
>"The plow zone is the mist which separates us from the Seventeenth
>Century." Garry Wheeler Stone
>
>There's another one from Faulkner about the ability of any Southern
>boy being able to conjure at any time the moment from the past just
>before the beginning of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. I don't
>recall it exactly, but I'm sure it could be easily found.
>
>Sorry not to include complete citations. Sounds like an interesting
>collection to build!
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Robert Keeler
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>K. Kris Hirst
>Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:08 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: quotation collection
>
>Hi all:
>
>Forgive my longtime lurker status, things being what they are these days; I
>also apologize for multiple mailings of this post. As some of you might
>know, I have a large stash of archaeology quotations on my website here:
>
>http://archaeology.about.com/od/quotations/a/quotations.htm
>
>Mitch Allen has convinced me that a collection of quotations about the past
>and archaeology might make an interesting and useful book for his Left Coast
>Press. I'd like to add more to my collection anything that y'all might
>suggest. I'd need a full citation--but I'm willing to do some searching if
>it's a keeper.
>
>So--does anybody have any additional quotes that you've loved and used over
>the years? I'm thinking the kind of stuff that you print out and attach to
>your peg board. If so, send them along! Please pass this on to anyone who
>might be interested.
>
>Much thanks in advance,
>
>Kris
>
>
>K. Kris Hirst
>Guide to Archaeology
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Robert L. Schuyler
University of Pennsylvania Museum
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