“This love of artefacts, in itself, has nothing to do with archaeology in the strict sense as study of the past. Artefacts tell us nothing about the past in themselves. I have stood in the middle of countless ruins of castles ancient palaces and listened very carefully, and not heard a single syllable. Collaegues tell me that they have had similar distressing experiences with pottery, bones, bags of seeds.”
- Matthew Johnson, ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY : AN INTRODUCTION, 2010
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- Matthew Johnson, ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY : AN INTRODUCTION, 2010
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