I’m currently reading Sir Mortimer Wheeler’s 1955 autobiography Still Digging: Interleaves from an Antiquary’s Notebook (mine is the 1956 reprint by Readers Union, so the page numbers might be a little off), which has been an enormously interesting read for a number of the great man’s insights into the condition of archaeology in the early [...]
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler on public archaeology
Posted in books, outreach, tagged archaeology, books, outreach on August 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
For the Sake of the Worms
Posted in publications, tagged British Archaeology, Charles Darwin, earthworms, piublications on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A short article I wrote about Charles Darwin’s experimental work into the effect of earthworms on soil, and their impact on the process of stratification, has been published in the September/ October issue of British Archaeology along with a short piece by BA’s editor, Mike Pitts, about excavations this summer at Abinger Roman villa which [...]
