Archaeology Quotes
On digging into history, curiosity, and the ancient past.
These archaeology quotes connect the discipline to curiosity about the past in general, with one writer comparing their own creative process to archaeological work. Another traces a surprising link between archaeologists and the military use of aerial photography.
Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology.
I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
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A couple of quotes are more personal, with speakers describing themselves as having studied or stayed obsessively interested in archaeology alongside fields like palaeontology. Together the collection frames archaeology as a lifelong fascination.
