In which people rarely realise just how man-made our countryside is
Published at 6:54 pm on May 15th, 2007
Filed under: Media Addict.
On the radio this morning, in between interminable political stuff: a piece about conservation, and particularly about conserving a hay meadow near Cambridge. I’m not sure what was particularly important about this specific meadow – I was too busy driving to listen properly – but I did pick up the presenter waffling on about the natural landscape.
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Keyword noise: conservation, countryside, landscape, landscape management, man-made, natural, rural.
In which we know where the bodies aren’t buried
Published at 11:17 pm on February 5th, 2007
Filed under: In With The Old, Unbelievable.
Archaeology news story of the week: British pagans have decided that archaeologist should hand prehistoric skeletons over to them for reburial. Which is, of course, a silly idea, and one that a lot of archaeologists have a problem with.
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Keyword noise: archaeology, artefacts, burial, conservation, curation, East Yorkshire, funerals, human remains, paganism, prehistory, preservation, reburial, religion, ritual, skeletons, Yorkshire.
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