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Archaeology is like any other comprehensive subject; it requires study, discriminating care, and enthusiasm. One should further add, it requires inspiration. A man who does not love to hunt specimens for the sake of hunting them has not his heart in the work.

Warren K. Moorehead

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Warren K. Moorehead

Warren K. Moorehead
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Born: March 10, 1866
Died: January 5, 1939 (aged 72)
Bio: Warren King Moorehead was known in his time as the 'Dean of American archaeology'; born in Siena, Italy to missionary parents on March 10, 1866, he died on January 5, 1939 at the age of 72, and is buried in his hometown of Xenia, Ohio.
Known for:
  1. The stone age in North America (1910)
  2. Primitive man in Ohio (1892)
  3. The Cahokia Mounds (1923)
  4. Exploration of the Etowah Site in Georgia (1932)
  5. The Merrimack archaeological survey (1931)

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