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In the Roman period, Julius Caesar’s soldiers discovered many tombs of great antiquity when they were founding colonies in Italy and Greece; they rifled them for pots and bronzes, which were sold for high prices in Rome, an early example of grave-robbing and a trade in antiquities.
...history could reasonably be described as the tip of archaeology’s iceberg, since for more than 99 per cent of the human past archaeology is the only real source of information.
Archaeology is a perpetual search, never really a finding; it is an eternal journey, with no true arrival. Everything is tentative, nothing is final.
Since nobody knows what happened in the past (including the recent historical past), there will never be an end to archaeological research. Theories will come and go, and new evidence or discoveries will alter the accepted fiction that constitutes the orthodox view of the past and which becomes established through general repetition and widespread acceptance. As Max Planck wrote, ‘A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.’
As A. J. P. Taylor said, history is not a catalogue but a version of events.
Günümüzde, modern insanların geçtiğimiz 200.000 yıl boyunca Afrikalı atalarından çoklu gelişim yoluyla türedikleri düşünülmektedir. Etiyopya'nın herto çalışma sahasında 2002 yılında bulunan fosiller henüz Avrupa'da neandertaller Java'da homo erectus yaşarken, modern insanların 160 bin yıl önce de Afrika'da ortaya çıkmış olduğunu gösteren ciddi kanıtlardır.
