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Archaeology is a science that must be lived, must be "seasoned with humanity". Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows.

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There is no right way of digging but there are many wrong ways.

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The excavator without an intelligent policy may be described as an archaeological food-gatherer, master of a skill, perhaps, but not creative in the wider terms of constructive science.

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The archaeologist is digging up, not things, but people.

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Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

Mortimer Wheeler

There must always be an element of chance and of opportunism in an excavation, however carefully planned. But scientific digging is not on that account a gamble.

Mortimer Wheeler

Mortimer Wheeler

Mortimer Wheeler

Born: September 10, 1890

Died: July 22, 1976 (aged 85)

Bio: Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH, CIE, MC, TD, FSA, FRS, FBA was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army.

Known for:

Roman Art and Architecture (1964)
The British Academy, 1949-1968 (1970)
The Indus Civilization (1953)
Archaeology from the Earth (1954)
Still Digging (1955)

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