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As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them. By Arthur Schopenhauer Succession Preserve Past Epochs Expositions

Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus. By Richard Kirwan Exclusion Livy Sallust Tacitus Rome

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development. By Margaret Murray Specialize Race Civilized Development Trend

In a simple direct sense, archaeology is a science that must be lived, must be "seasoned with humanity." Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows. By Mortimer Wheeler Sense Lived Seasoned Humanity Archaeology

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone. By A. L. Rowse Stone Regard Architecture History Arrested

Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools. By John Dewey Interests Epochs Past Characteristic Struggles

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. By Joan D. Vinge Anthropology Archaeology Past Future Science

We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history By Manuel De Landa Biological Social Structures Geological History

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people. By Paul Di Filippo Humanity Rule Thumb Popculture Archaeology

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Stonehenge Mexico Pyramids Circles Memphisis

Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion. By Humphry Davy Geology Philosophy Contemplation Department Natural

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology. By Michael Ondaatje Writer Archaeology Busy

...carved marble figures in strata that "suggests the characters were made by intelligent humans from the distant past,"a section of gold thread found in strata between 320 and 360 million years old,a report in a nineteenth-century edition of Scientific American recording the discovery of a metallic vase in strata 600 million years old,a chalk ball in France in strata 45-55 million years old,a machined coin with undecipherable writing at least 200,000 years old, discovered in Illinois,a clay figurine discovered in Idaho that is atleast two million years old.The list of suppressed and conveniently forgotten discoveries goes on and on, By Joseph P. Farrell Years Strata Million Olda Discovered

The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is - Time! - Time! - Time! By George Poulett Scrope Time Nature Geological Researches Observation

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. By Thomas Carlyle History Ashes Wreck Bones Mountains

Palaeontology and archaeology and other skulduggery were not subjects that interested wizards. Things are buried for a reason, they considered. There's no point in wondering what it was. Don't go digging things up in case they won't let you bury them again. By Terry Pratchett Palaeontology Wizards Archaeology Skulduggery Subjects

Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments. By William Buckland Nature Knowledge Power Holds Geology

Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study. By David Pilbeam Human Biology Study Paleontology Shares

I am an archaeologist of mature vintage. Rapid descents are not my specialty. I am the plodding type."~ Grace Madison, PhD. By N.l.b. Horton Vintage Archaeologist Mature Phd Grace

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future. By Louise Bernikow Mothers Future Archaeologists World Retrieve

Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they present:- so various yet so uniform-so vast yet so connected. In thus tracing back to the most remote periods in the physical history of our continents, one system of operations, as the means by which many complex formations have been successively produced, the mind becomes impressed with the singleness of nature's laws; and in this respect, at least, geology is hardly inferior in simplicity to astronomy. By Roderick Murchison Combining Group Present Connected Survey

These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing them to paper I found it advisable to alter and add a good deal, to enable the reader without specialized training to follow me along the winding paths of palaeontology and prehistory. By Gustav Heinrich Ralph Von Koenigswald Palaeontologist Diary Book Experiences Record

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise. By Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Age Understood Architecture Bound Time

The ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing. By Patience Strong Earth Ploughing Planting Reaping Threshing

Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,the every-day life of each particular time and country. By Richard Whately Country Geologists Spars Historians Complain

Statements that will hold good for all time are difficult to obtain in archaeology. The most that can be done at any one time is to report on the current state of knowledge. By Jennifer K. Mcarthur Statements Archaeology Time Hold Good

There is no final truth in palaeontology. Every new observer brings something of his or her own: a new technique, a new intelligence, even new mistakes. The past mutates. The scientist is on a perpetual journey into a past that can never be fully known, and there is no end to the quest for knowledge. By Richard Fortey Palaeontology Final Truth Past Technique

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always. By Lascelles Abercrombie Nations Interest World Vast Stock

Historical chronology, human or geological, depends ... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the second crossing the first, another person on examining these marks can tell unambiguously which was made first and which second, because the latter event irreversibly disturbs its predecessor. In virtue of the fact that most of the rocks of the earth contain imprints of a succession of such irreversible events, an unambiguous working out of the chronological sequence of these events becomes possible. By M. King Hubbert Depends Historical Chronology Human Geological

Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator. By William Buckland Power Wisdom Creator Goodness Geology

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. By Leonardo Da Vinci Knowledge Man Past Places Earth

What is amazing to me as an archaeologist is that the more and more I study, I realize we are resilient, we are creative, we are brilliant, and this is what makes us human, and that hasn't changed since we've been human. By Sarah Parcak Human Study Resilient Creative Brilliant

I knew I never wanted to become an archaeologist. But at school I became intrigued by what people were doing on an everyday basis in the past. By Juliet Aubrey Archaeologist Knew Wanted Past School

The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining. By Sarah Parcak Beneath Imagery Technology Ground Radar

Place is not the background of archaeology - it's the point. As any archaeologist will tell you, context is everything. By Marilyn Johnson Place Archaeology Point Background Context

When people initially think of the term 'space archaeologist,' they think, 'Oh, it's someone who uses satellites to look for alien settlements on Mars or in outer space,' but the opposite is true - we're actually looking for evidence of past human life on planet earth. By Sarah Parcak Mars Term Archaeologist True Earth

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied ... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers. By Heinrich Schliemann Occupied Aim Historical Customary Research

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations. By Pierre Loti Creations Study Fossils Initiated Mysteries

I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices. By Tess Gerritsen Mummies Egyptology College Practices Anthropology

This is the Mona Lisa of paleontology. By Elizabeth Kolbert Mona Lisa Paleontology

History may be accurate, but archaeology is precise. By Doug Scott History Accurate Precise Archaeology

For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance. By Kenneth R. Miller Earth Creation Changed History Great

What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon? By Jack O'neill Weapon Kind Archaeologist Carries

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources. By Michael Rostovtzeff Importance Source Texts Information Written

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. By M. King Hubbert History Human Geological Represents Hypothesis

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it. By Richard Dawkins Pliocene African Devonian Seas Walking

Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?' By Agatha Christie England Max Ago Girl Subject

[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds. By Stephen Jay Gould History Great Tools Worlds Natural

When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts, By Marilyn Johnson Apocalypse Archaeologist Fire Catch Food

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed it does. In the absence of any absolutely sensational discovery in prehistory, there is an up-to-date and scientific manner of understanding man, which is solidly based on palaeontology. By Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Slowly Number Human Fossils Increases

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE! By Erasmus Darwin Nature Coal Marl Sand Monuments

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers. By H.g.wells Anthropology Region Marked Unsubdued Compared

To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret. By James Hutton Naturalist Stone Indifferent Mountain World

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand - and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? By Washington Irving History Fable Fact Controversy Tablet

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity. By Bal Gangadhar Tilak Antiquity Geologist History Earth Point

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place. By Gail Carriger Archeologist Culture Specialist Areas Field

Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare? By Henry David Thoreau Virgin Durable Rocks Mould Nature

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. By Michael Rostovtzeff Learn Learning Archaeology Gradually Write

Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust. By Lawrence Millman Airport Day Walked Town Bit

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. By Claude Levi-Strauss Rivers Mauss Galileo Newton Anthropology

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories. By Andy Goldsworthy Memories Stone Ingrained Geological Historical

If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out the composition of ancient pots. You have to be able to study human remains. You need to be able to do computer processing and, in some cases, computer programming. By Sarah Parcak Understand Dna Ancient Archaeologist Pots

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence. By Zahi Hawass Scientists Mind Evidence Open Base

It would be ironic for an archaeologist to catch something nasty from the past, perhaps the ultimate in experimental archaeology! By Paul G. Bahn Past Archaeology Ironic Archaeologist Catch

In 1990, I was an undergraduate freshman archeology major sneaking over to the English building and unearthing an amazing repository of books I'd never even suspected. By 1998, I'd have my Ph.D. By Stephen Graham Jones English Suspected Undergraduate Freshman Archeology

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt. By Ruth Wilson Archeologist Sort Dirt Idea Scrubbing

I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world. By Sarah Parcak World Surprised Amount Archaeological Sites

As much as he loved Old Earth artefacts, it was tremendously frustrating at times to know that it wasn't possible to prove the original purpose of so many of them. Spotting an object he had puzzled over for the past two years, he stopped at its shelf, picked up the crumpled piece of plastic, and unfolded it until it had the approximate shape of a woman. She could be inflated by blowing air into an attached valve. Although he did have his suspicions as to what she was for (and he blushed even thinking about it - he described her as a 'portable statue of a surprised female' to potential customers), he still yearned to know whether he was right or not. By Michael K. Schaefer Earth Artefacts Loved Tremendously Frustrating

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. By Georges Cuvier Remains Object Work Globe Neglected

Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man - the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories - will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper. By Elizabeth Kolbert Hundred Million Years Zalasiewicz Today

Nature will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature Reported History Things Engaged

Lately, however, the routine had begun to pall. Coprolites and Jurassic snails no longer held the fascination they once did, and the incessant backbiting and political manoeuvring endemic in upperechelon academia - which she had always known and accepted as part of the scholastic landscape - was proving more and more of an irksome distraction. The further she travelled into darkest PhD territory, the more the fossilised remains of extinct creatures dwindled in fascination; she was rapidly specialising herself beyond caring about her subject. Whether or not the world learned what the latest new megasaurus ate for lunch sixty million years ago, what difference did it make? By Stephen R. Lawhead Pall Routine Begun Fascination Jurassic

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic. By Edward Forbes Geology History Epic Looked Earth

I'm an Egyptologist. I'm a remote sensing specialist, and I'm a space archaeologist. By Sarah Parcak Egyptologist Specialist Archaeologist Remote Sensing

Old age transfigures or fossilizes. By Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach Fossilizes Age Transfigures

Historians and paleontologists have a great rivalry," said Tetsuo. "Most contact missions arrive too late, after history has ended. The people we wanted to contact have wiped themselves out. The historians have to put on pith helmets and learn how to dig up fossils." "But you're not fossils," said Ashley. "And so, the historians win!" said Tetsuo. "This time, the paleontologists have to learn about inefficient hierarchical systems of social organization! By Leonard Richardson Tetsuo Rivalry Historians Great Fossils

Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to mistake a fancy for a fact. Geologists, in particular, have very frequently amused themselves in this way, and it is not a little amusing to follow them in their fancies and their waking dreams. Geology, indeed, in this view, may be called a romantic science. By Granville Penn Philosophers Imagination People Fact Apt

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task. By Richard Leakey Paleoanthropology Bone Science Ends Discovery

Paleontology, n.You couldn't believe the longest relationship I'd ever been in had only lasted for five months."Ever?" you asked, as if I might have overlooked a marriage.I couldn't say, "I never found anyone who interested me all that much," because it was only our second date, and the jury was still hearing your case.I sat there as you excavated your boyfriends, laid the bones out on the table for me to see. I shifted them around, tried to reassemble them, if only to see if they bore any resemblance to me. By David Levithan Paleontology Nyou Months Asked Date

Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales ... from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover ... An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster ... By Penelope Lively Paleolithic Film Write Account Make

Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could not understand how the members of any academic profession could fail to be intrigued by the study of their own cultural heritage. What these historians did not grasp was that scientists will welcome the history of science only when it has been demonstrated that this discipline can add to our understanding of science itself and thus help to produce, in some sense, better scientists. By I. Bernard Cohen History Scientists Irrelevant Heritage Historians

In the 1940s and 1950s, the study of natural historyan intimate science predicated on the time-consuming collection and naming of life-formsgave way to microbiology, theoretical and commercial. Much the same thing happened to the conservation movement, which shifted from local preservationists with soil on their shoes to environmental lawyers in Washington, D.C. By Richard Louv Microbiology Theoretical Commercial Study Natural

The most exciting part of what I do is understanding the scale of what we don't know. There are just countless archaeological sites all over the world, and one of the most important and best ways of finding them is using digital technology. By Sarah Parcak Exciting Part Understanding Scale World

What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig. By Nathan Myhrvold Ground Dinosaur Expedition Hike Dig

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology By Zbigniew Herbert Archaeology Write Treatise Sudden Transformation

The past is an immense area of stony ground that many people would like to drive across as if it were a motorway, while others move patiently from stone to stone, lifting each one because they need to know what lies beneath. By Jose Saramago Stone Motorway Lifting Beneath Past

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space. By Claude Levi-Strauss History Anthropologist Respects Accord Special

As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French. By Kate Williams Archives Gazing Books Latin French

We are not the only ones who knew a Stone Age: our closest relatives still live in one. To stress this point, a "percussive stone technology" site (including stone assemblies and the remains of smashed nuts) was excavated in a tropical forest in Ivory Coast, where chimpanzees must have been opening nuts for at least four thousand years.31 These discoveries led to a human-ape lithic culture story By Frans De Waal Age Stone Knew Closest Relatives

History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct, is the relationship between soil erosion, the productivity of the land, and the prosperity of people, that the history of mankind, to a considerable degree at least, may be interpreted in terms of the soil and what has happened to it as the result of human use. By Hugh Hammond Bennett Soil Human Land History Nature

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth. By Giovanni Battista Brocchi Earth Science Fossil Shells Step

The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man. By Weston La Barre Careful Scholarship Dedicated Amateur Mycophile

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge. By C. V. Raman Science Knowledge History Find Study

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior. By Louis Leakey Stone Behavior Tools Fossilized Human

[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon the brain behind the eye of the observer. Each of us looks at a section with the accumulated experience of his past study. Hence the veteran cannot make the novice see with his eyes; so that what carries conviction to the one may make no appeal to the other. This fact does not always seem to be sufficiently recognized by geologists at large. By Thomas George Bonney Microscopic Evidence Populum Presented Make

Nature is technological relic of ancient civilizations. By Toba Beta Nature Civilizations Technological Relic Ancient

[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the 'school' to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation 'the dialogue with the earth,' 'das Gesprach mit der Erde. By R.w. Van Bemmelen Geology History Asked Questions Material

A landscape fossilized,It's stone-wall patterningsRepeated before our eyesIn the stone walls of Mayo.Before I turned to goHe talked about persistence,A congruence of lives,How, stubbed and cleared of stones,His home accrued growth ringsOf iron, flint and bronze- Belderg By Seamus Heaney Belderg Landscape Stonewall Liveshow Stubbed

I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human. I'm also from the area that is considered to be the cradle of mankind. By Wangechi Mutu Evolution Interest Amateur Side Attraction

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging ... He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand -like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery -in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding. By Walter Benjamin Digging Earth Seeks Approach Buried