Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity

Learn how the deep history of nature became a dominant paradigm of historical thinking, through a study of landscapes of India.

Winner of the BSHS Pickstone Prize by the British Society for the History of Science

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 irr...