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Archaeology from the Earth (1954)
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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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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.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
September 10, 1890
Died:
July 22, 1976
(aged 85)
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