‘They excavated a nightclub!’: uncovering Black British history beyond London – podcast | Black British culture
Guardian Arts and Culture Correspondent Lanre Bakare Growing up, he learned the British history of the same black people as many of us. It was a series of peculiar events. Docking of Windrush in 1948, Anxiety of Notting Hill or Brixton, and the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Everything is important, but it’s all firmly focused […]
Mastodon skull excavated from Iowa creek
Listen, this is a big problem. Archaeologists unearthed an ancient mastodon skull from a stream in Iowa this month, the first such find to come from the state. It took excavators 12 days to slowly recover the enormous fossil, which was remarkably well preserved, including a large portion of the once-curved tusk. The mastodon was […]