The Lost Tomb Quotes

“It was a revelation to see that making a Clovis point was primarily an intellectual process. Sometimes ten minutes would pass while Bradley examined the stone and mapped out the next flaking sequence.”
― Douglas Preston, The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

“This will be an interesting exercise, since no human beings are indigenous to the New World: we are all immigrants.”
― Douglas Preston, The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

“There’s no one answer. You need a dialogue from the beginning.”
― Douglas Preston, The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

“The grim history of eugenics still casts a shadow over genetics—a field with limitless appeal for white supremacists and others looking to support racist views—even though, for half a century, geneticists have rejected the idea of large hereditary disparities among human populations for the great majority of traits.”
― Douglas Preston, The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

“Recent controversial research into the evolution of altruism, warfare, and punishment in human society indicates that Internet savagery may be programmed into our very genes.”
― Douglas Preston, The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

“It’s too bad,” said Thomas. “An examination of those bones could document precisely what the Indians have argued, that they were badly mistreated by the missionaries during that period.”
― Douglas Preston, The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder