Status Updates From After the Ice: A Global Hum...

have tragically decided to dnf this but want to write a proper review when i have my laptop. in the mean time i’m going to waterstones bc i am NOT sitting around between appointments without a book for the rest of the day

becoming increasingly irritated with the discussion of glaciology in this book…i know the author is an archaeologist but he just described a period as being both post-glacial AND during the LGM. that is literally fucking impossible. also his chronology for the british-irish ice sheet is AWFUL holy fuck, i can promise you the BIIS was stable at 25ka

‘Both nipples are split apart and peering from within are the skulls of vultures, foxes and weasels’ ok what the fuck are you on about

forever baffling that the education system here seems to act as though anywhere east of istanbul and west of mumbai is just a void where nothing ever happened. as if (among many other things) the earliest evidence of cereal and legume domestication is in palestine, and the first event of organised architecture is found in jordan??? those are such insanely important markers in human history

we had no tap water at the end of last week, officially in a drought, about 5 heatwaves deep, and some absolute fucking inbred had the genius idea to start a bonfire up on the hills last night. and so naturally the surrounding fields also went up in flame and we have to keep doors and windows closed bc of the smoke. fuck sake.

this is really interesting but i am taking the ‘women did this, men did this’ stuff with a pinch of salt, given that this was published in 2003 and there have been numerous studies since showing no such evidence (on top of the fact that ‘men’ and ‘women’ have never been the only distinct genders in our species)

bought this five years ago and have thought about it regularly but it’s fucking massive and in the tiniest font imaginable, but now feels like the perfect time to read it