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
437 High Street
Burlington, NJ   08016
Phone: 609-386-5444
Fax: 609-386-6994


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