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- Nov 07, 2020
Archaeological Quotes
On evidence, ruins, and what old civilizations still teach us.
One scientist insists that every idea about the past has to rest on actual archaeological evidence, not assumption, a theme that runs through Book as well. Another line notes how ancient Babylon and Assyria drew real preservation funding for their historical weight.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Thames could be thought of as England's longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are in the collection of the Museum of London, whose 30-year relationship with London mudlarks is both committed and highly regulated.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.
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- Nov 07, 2020