Once while hiking over a pass in the Cargo Muchacho Mountains of
southeastern California, the thought came to my mind that "archaeology is a shattered
message on the ground... it is our challenge to decipher that message."
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
In a message dated 1/29/2009 8:01:45 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
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Most of the marks that man has left on the face of the earth during his
two-million year career as a litterbugging, meddlesome and occasionally
artistic animal have one aspect in common: they are things, they are not
deeds, ideas or words.
Glynn Isaac
The mythic instinct erelong begins to shape things as they ought to
have been, rather than as they were.
James Russell Lowell
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on
this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and
women, as actual as we are today, thinking
their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone,
one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we
ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cock-crow.
G.M. Trevelyan
The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively.
We must concede the ancients their place... But their place is not
simply back there, in a separate and foreign country; it
is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing
present.
David Lowenthal
When a man sits down to write a history—tho’ it be but the history of Jack
Hickathrift or Tom Thumb—he knows no more than his heels what lets and
confounded hindrances he is to meet in his
way, or what a dance
he may be led, by one excursion or another, before all is over.
Laurence Sterne
Richard M. Affleck, RPA
Senior Archaeologist
URS Corporation
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Burlington, NJ 08016
Phone: 609-386-5444
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