Writing tagged: ‘archaeology’
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Book review: ‘Buried’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain.
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Book review: ‘Kindred’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
An introduction to our formerly maligned cousins.
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Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
15,000 years of urban life and death.
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Ruskin’s aesthetic taxonomy
On the intriguing and rather barmy plant taxonomy suggested by the Nineteenth Century art critic and social thinker John Ruskin.
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Reverse engineering parasites (redux)
In which a whimsical thought from an earlier post turned out not to be so whimsical after all.
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Skeleton sexing
Not just a matter of counting ribs.