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Newsletter No. 13: Bramblings!
archaeology
Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
15,000 years of urban life and death.
Darwin on earthworms: small change writ large
A review of Charles Darwin's wonderful final book, ‘The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits’.
136 snail shells & a pint of shorts
As life events go, Shetland 1985 turned out to be right up there.
LRB letter: ‘Ancient Refrigerators’
A possible solution to a well-known conundrum about Ancient Rome.