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Idea · soil and landscape
From Darwin's earthworms to the chemical memory of soil
Why we read landscape as process, measurable signal and a spatial archive of human activity.
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Ravat · water and farming
How can water be shared when fields belong to individual households?
Ravat preserves more than 25 km of canals, over 90 fields and 45 homesteads. The story asks what this network reveals about the organisation of everyday farming.
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Jon Ross · Qedesh
Whose hands made pots thousands of years ago?
A fingerprint in clay is a direct trace of a person. To use it as reliable evidence about ancient labour, we must know how fire changed it.
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