O. G. S. Crawford Quotes

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Field archaeology is an essentially English form of sport.

O. G. S. Crawford

The archaeologist who tries to re-create the past is like a craftsman at work upon a great building. At first he sees but dimly the plan of the whole, but as he warms to his work it gradually unfolds itself before him.

O. G. S. Crawford

The archaeologist has work to do for the good of the race; he is making bricks for the mansions that others build after him shall build. That is his justification for devoting a lifetime to "unpractical" pursuits. He may be wrong, but you will not lightly convince him of his error.

O. G. S. Crawford

If archaeology is humanity revealed by its works, paleontology is life revealed by its own remains.

O. G. S. Crawford

Archaeology is an art which employs scientific technique. In Sir Mortimer Wheeler

O. G. S. Crawford

It is to the archaeologist that one must look for the completion of the outline the historian has sketched.

O. G. S. Crawford

O. G. S. Crawford

O. G. S. Crawford

Born: October 28, 1886

Died: November 28, 1957 (aged 71)

Bio: Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, better known as O. G. S. Crawford, was a British archaeologist who specialised in the study of prehistoric Britain and the archaeology of Sudan.

Known for:

The Eye Goddess (1957)
Ethiopian itineraries, circa 1400-1524 (1957)
Topography of Roman Scotland (1949)
Archaeology in the field (1953)
The Fung kingdom of Sennar (1951)

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