Prehistorian

🇩🇪Rudolf Virchow

Medicine

1821–1902

"Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line—nor should there be."

William Stukeley

Medicine

1687–1765

"This mighty wall of four score miles in length is only exceeded by the Chinese wall, which makes a considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and may be discerned at the moon."

🇬🇧Mortimer Wheeler

1890–1976

"The anthropologists who have recently described the skeletons from Harappa remark that there, as at Lothal, the population would appear, on the available evidence, to have remained more or less stable to the present day."

"The sudden appearance of novelty is not, as Otto Schindewolf emphasized, an unusual aspect of the fossil record."

🇬🇧Colin Renfrew

Politics

1937–2024

"“All the migrations postulated by Renfrew ultimately stem from a single catalyst: the crossing of Anatolian farmers into Greece… For all practical purposes, Renfrew’s hypothesis disregards Tocharian and Indo-Iranian."