"Not all sites are Pompeii." Thomas R. Hester [student/colleague of
Heizer's]
... used to dampen the overly-exuberant ardor, interpretations and
expectations of neophytes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron May" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: quotation collection
>I heard from several people over the years that Robert Heizer,University of
> California, often said at the end of his career that "California
> archaeology
> has been sucked dry as an orange" implying that he had learned all there
> is to
> learn.
>
> On the other hand, Emma Lou Davis, would often follow up her current
> synthesis of desert or coastal archaeology with the comment, "whatever
> that means,"
> implying the syntheses proposed by people like Heizer are always subject
> to
> challenge and testing and revision.
>
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
>
>
> In a message dated 1/29/2009 6:16:43 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> One of my favorites is Sir Mortimer Wheeler
>
>
>
> "Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows."
>
>
>
> from the preface of Archaeology from the Earth
>
>
>
> Also, in reference to "The plow zone is the mist which separates us from
> the
> Seventeenth Century." Garry Wheeler Stone
>
>
>
> It was followed by a crew member saying "Garry, throw some fog in the
> sifter."
>
>
>
>
>
> Silas Hurry
>
> HSMC
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Keeler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:39:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: quotation collection
>
> Hi, Kris,
>
> Some I throw out to students in my classes are:
>
> "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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