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Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology QUOTES

1 " As Jamie Shreeve of National Geographic describes it, this required going through a passageway known as Superman’s Crawl, which is less than ten inches high and can be traversed only if you hold one arm tight against your body and extend the other above your head, like Superman when he is flying; then climbing up a vertical wall of jagged rock called the Dragon’s Back; and then, after a number of other twists and turns, finally squeezing through a passage that at one point narrows to only seven and a half inches wide, before reaching the Dinaledi Chamber in which the bones lie. "

― Eric H. Cline , Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

2 " It has been said that the excavations conducted under Mussolini during those fourteen years “added more to our knowledge of Augustan Rome than the previous fourteen centuries had provided. "

― Eric H. Cline , Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

3 " Thieves of Baghdad, which was published in 2005. Looting in Iraq The looting went far beyond the museum and extended to archaeological sites throughout Iraq, with reports of men armed with both shovels and machine guns illegally digging at sites across the country. "

― Eric H. Cline , Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

4 " the pankration, a no-holds-barred martial art event akin to today’s kickboxing or perhaps a combination of karate and judo, in which everything was allowed, except for biting, eye-gouging, and scratching "

― Eric H. Cline , Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

5 " and P.L.O. Guy (whose initials were okay for then but mean something entirely different now). "

― Eric H. Cline , Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

6 " This method measures the difference between the amount of potassium in the rock and the amount of argon in it, because potassium decays and becomes argon over time. But it takes a very long time for the decay to happen, and so this method is best used when something is between two hundred thousand and five million years old. In such cases, it would also be impossible to use radiocarbon dating, which works on organic remains but not stone tools and is useful only for dating things within the last fifty thousand years. "

― Eric H. Cline , Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

7 " There can be problems with measuring rehydroxylation "

― Eric H. Cline , Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

8 " a bacterium named H. pylori that can cause ulcers. The bacterium may provide a clue to human migration patterns, for it is an Asian strain, and not the more usual Asian-African hybrids present in today’s European population. This discovery suggests that the additional migrations that brought African strains to Europe had not yet taken place by Ötzi’s time. "

― Eric H. Cline , Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

9 " In an interesting, and unexplained, related piece of trivia, the actor Brad Pitt now reportedly has a tattoo of Ötzi on his left forearm—Hollywood meets archaeology? "

― Eric H. Cline , Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

10 " And then they frequently placed the skulls in a prominent place, such as in the living room of their house. "

― Eric H. Cline , Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

11 " It would not be surprising if the villagers were afraid of these wild animals and tried to protect themselves from them, which would also explain why they had no doors or windows in their houses, so the animals could not get in that way. By using ladders, which the animals could not climb, the inhabitants were able to ensure their survival, at least from unwanted predators at night. No other explanation works as well. "

― Eric H. Cline , Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology