The thing that makes this archeology and not treasure-hunting or salvage is the scientific approach, which includes precision navigation and mapping.
Quotes about archeology (13 Quotes)
Right now the amount of archeology that has been done out there is about the size of a house. Historically speaking, it is a diamond in the rough because you don't know what is there.
From there I went to Paris where I studied for three years, and then to England where I took a postgraduate course at Oxford in archeology.
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost 150,000. But it cost four times that for the layers upon layers of work in this garden that people never see, such as the archeology, the engineering, and the irrigation.
The thing that makes artifacts important is their spatial relationships to each other. If you don't record those spatial relationships carefully, then you're not doing archeology. The minute you remove an artifact from a site and put it somewhere else, then you've lost information. The precision mapping done by the navigation system and the sub-profiler makes what we do archeological science.
I was mesmerized by what it would be like for somebody who was a student of history and archeology to go back to a medieval period and really live it.
This 'digital archeology' program represents a serious commitment to go further into the past, and to begin to take advantage of the benefits for artists and for music fans of digital download technology. Hopefully, the first round of recordings selected for this initiative will start to satisfy consumer demand, as more and more people buy their music online.
Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
We have archeology on television, and I quite like it its a sort of detective thing, but its really true, you know its there But its kind of slow on telly, it has this problem of, Weve been here three weeks on live television, and weve taken off about a millimeter of top soil so far Theres men with brushes and beards maybe theyve just got beards, Im not sure We found this and carbon-dated it to last Tuesday, so were very excited
And they always find in archeology a series of small walls. Every time, a series of small walls. Everywhere you go. Weve found a series of small walls, were very excited I think this proves they had walls in olden days. They were very small, and a series of small wall people. And then someone comes along, very learned, with glasses, Of course, the king and queen entertained here 1,500 courtiers, and there were soldiers, 20,000 soldiers in this room, and elephants dancing hopscotch over there A mad fiddler in this room, playing the banjo, buttocks and aqueducts into a heater And youre just watching, and going, Youre making this up, mate Youre just pointing at a series of small walls, going, there, there Tutankhamen playing banjo in there Dont know if its true.
State regulations require archeology involvement when digging in sensitive areas, but Gene's contribution goes above and beyond. He's taken such a personal interest in the history here and brought it to the attention of the Historical Society and the city,
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.