Pratik Chakrabarti (2020): Inscriptions of Nature. Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore.
In the nineteenth century, teams of men began digging the earth like never before. Sometimes this digging—often for sewage, transport, or minerals—revealed human remains. Other times, archaeological excavation of ancient cities unearthed prehistoric fossils, while excavations for irrigation canals revealed buried cities. Concurrently, geologists, ethnologists, archaeologists, and missionaries were also digging into ancient texts and… Read More Pratik Chakrabarti (2020): Inscriptions of Nature. Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore.