Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
15,000 years of urban life and death.
Tag Archives: archaeology
Ruskin's aesthetic taxonomy
On the intriguing and rather barmy plant taxonomy suggested by the Nineteenth Century art critic and social thinker John Ruskin.
Reverse engineering parasites (redux)
In which a whimsical thought from an earlier post turned out not to be so whimsical after all.
Skeleton sexing
Not just a matter of counting ribs.