Writing tagged: ‘archaeology’
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Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
15,000 years of urban life and death.
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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’.
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136 snail shells & a pint of shorts
As life events go, Shetland 1985 turned out to be right up there.
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The Thomas Browne Affair
On the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, and his tenuous connection with my local moor.
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LRB letter: ‘Ancient Refrigerators’
A possible solution to a well-known conundrum about Ancient Rome.