Jacquetta Hawkes (5 August 1910 – 18 March 1996) was a British archaeologist and writer.
there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective. . . the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.
The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.
Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.
In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of the wind, the talk of old women warning the green generation of what they, too, must come to when the sap runs back.
I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.
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