Built on Bones Quotes

“Here we were, setting off on a tour of some of the very earliest permanent settlements known to humankind, all while driving through a landscape littered with signs of twenty-first-century nomads, both Bedouin and migrant workers. Looking at the forbidding landscape, you’d be forgiven for wondering why anyone would want to settle here, of all places.”
― Brenna Hassett, Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death

“what we think of when we envision the human past is partly a myth that tells more about where we think we’re going wrong with our own lives today than anything that happened thousands and thousands of years ago.”
― Brenna Hassett, Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death