No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist—musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn. … No amounts of stone...

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

I’ve found him-found our man!

Once she summed up her carrer simply: ‘I dug things up. I was curious. And then I liked to draw what i found

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

I think it’s the most important find in view of human evolution. I was really looking for tools, but we never found any at the site.

I’d rather be in a tent than in a house.