Top 4 Elizabeth Wayland Barber Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Along the way I kept running across wonderful bits of information about the women – virtually always women – who produced these textiles and about the values that different societies put on the products and their makers. When I talked about my work, people seemed especially eager for these vignettes, stories that told of women’s lives thousands of years ago.”

— Elizabeth Wayland Barber

2. “So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Paleolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.”

— Elizabeth Wayland Barber

3. “I have also paid some attention to what language can tell us. Messages perish as they are uttered, but language itself is remarkably durable. Sometimes it preserves useful clues to a more abstract and thought-oriented part of the human past than material artifacts do.”

— Elizabeth Wayland Barber

4. “Words, as. it happens, sometimes survive the millennia better than material objects, and they do so best in areas in which the culture changed only very slowly – as in the far north, where the intense winter cold discouraged immigrants.”

— Elizabeth Wayland Barber

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