Miles Clarke > Quotes

“The usual means of treating large bodies of artifacts is by means of typology or classification into classes and types.”
― Miles Clarke, Archaeology: World Archaeology: An Introductory Guide to Archaeology

“Archaeology is the science that studies the history of human culture through its material remains, is limited to analysis of those items (and inferences drawn there from) which have escaped the destructive forces of decay.”
― Miles Clarke, Archaeology: World Archaeology: An Introductory Guide to Archaeology

“Archaeology is an evolving discipline and it has been often called the “handmaiden of history.”
― Miles Clarke, Archaeology: World Archaeology: An Introductory Guide to Archaeology

“The word archaeology comes from the Greek words archaia (“ancient things”), and logos (“theory or science”).”
― Miles Clarke, Archaeology: World Archaeology: An Introductory Guide to Archaeology

“The study of bones is restricted to physical anthropologists or human paleontologists. Neither is an archaeologist supposed to elucidate ancient writing since that is the specialty of an epigraphist or philologist. Ultimately, the archaeologist is a historian and primarily an anecdote: he has to discover, explicate, classify and evaluate the artifacts that are to be studied.”
― Miles Clarke, Archaeology: World Archaeology: An Introductory Guide to Archaeology

“Petrie developed a systematized method of excavation, the fundamentals”
― Miles Clarke, Archaeology: World Archaeology: An Introductory Guide to Archaeology

“Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon made the most prodigious discovery in the history of Archaeology, that of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922.”
― Miles Clarke, Archaeology: World Archaeology: An Introductory Guide to Archaeology

“The primary chronological tool of the archaeologist is stratigraphy or superposition.”
― Miles Clarke, Archaeology: World Archaeology: An Introductory Guide to Archaeology

“The absolute dating method known as dendrochronology works by counting annual rings of trees.”
― Miles Clarke, Archaeology: World Archaeology: An Introductory Guide to Archaeology

“Paleolithic archaeology is concerned with the inception and augmentation of early human culture, which is believed have occurred some 600,000 or 700,000 years ago.”
― Miles Clarke, Archaeology: World Archaeology: An Introductory Guide to Archaeology