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A two-dance day
Tension grows as we enter the final two weeks of the project. One key aim of the season remains frustratingly out of reach: artefacts. Early Stone Age artefacts. We haven’t found them. They taunt...
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Things fall apart (with apologies to Chinua Achebe)
Phewww…. The sound of expelled air at the end of a long day. Not a puncture, just exhaustion. Brain and body frazzled. Frustrated with bureaucratic indecision and cumulative physical toil as the...
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Chizipa!
I return to a dark tent. There’s no power and I’m on my own now after an intense month at Kalambo Falls. Bliss. Minutes ago, we said a collective goodbye at the airport in Lusaka. The team homeward...
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Stone Age memories
The nine-year-old me appeared briefly last week. My face painted, sitting on the ground, breaking rocks and trying to make fire. Not some ghostly apparition, but a remembered feeling that bubbled up...
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Deep Roots 2020 – Locked Out!
Greetings from our garden, and please turn up the volume for this brief update on the Deep Roots project during the Covid-19 lock-down. Prof Larry
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Barking up the right tree
As we wait for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines and the return to something like normal life, planning is underway for getting back to Zambia. The final season of fieldwork on the Deep Roots project...
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Re-emergence
Yes, it’s been a long time. Too long. Followers of the Deep Roots project may have been wondering why there hasn’t been a blog post for yonks (that’s a technical term, of course). Has the project...
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Messenger Compound
What’s in a name? Not a lot in the case of ‘Messenger Compound’, certainly no whiff of roses and star-crossed lovers. The place existed early in the colonial history of Livingstone, Zambia and it...
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The calm after the storm
A few weeks ago, news broke of our discovery of the oldest evidence for a wood structure in the archaeological record (Nature 20 September 2023). I watched with disbelief and amazement as it trended...
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The discovery that keeps on giving
As this New Year gets underway I’d like to share an extraordinary occasion I experienced in Shanghai in the days before Christmas – and brief you on plans for Kalambo Falls. The Shanghai Archaeology...
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