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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Quote of the semester

I came across this tonight in one of my theory readings. It made me laugh:

"If the social sciences were like mathematics or physics, economists might be rich, political scientists would be elected, sociologists would be unemployed, and archaeologists would know all the answers."
--T. Price on the unpredictability of archaeological inquiry (Ch. 16 of Principles of Archaeology)

True, so true.

Posted by Will at September 24, 2006 08:41 PM in Archaeology