Bruce G. Trigger > Quotes

“The ability to expend energy, especially in the form of other people's labour, in non-utilitarian ways, is the most basic and universally understood symbol of power.”
― Bruce Trigger

“Clark also maintained that someone with no excavation experience was not equipped to interpret archaeological data, thereby implicitly denying the distinction that some British culture-historical archaeologists were drawing between archaeologists and prehistorians.”
― Bruce G. Trigger, A History of Archaeological Thought