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Field archaeology is an essentially English form of sport.
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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.
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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.
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If archaeology is humanity revealed by its works, paleontology is life revealed by its own remains.
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Archaeology is an art which employs scientific technique. In Sir Mortimer Wheeler
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It is to the archaeologist that one must look for the completion of the outline the historian has sketched.
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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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