815 – 669 BCE The association of particular plaid patterns (tartans) with particular Scottish highland clans is a phenomenon of the last several centuries. But the Celt-plaid connection goes back a lot farther than that. This picture shows a scrap of fabric associated with the Iron Age Hallstatt culture of central Europe. The culture lasted […]| Logarithmic History
1351 – 1165 BCE Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney, is a well-written popular account of the origin and spread of Indo-European and its branches, synthesizing historical linguistics and recent findings in genetics. I learned a lot from it. But inevitably, given the range of topics and disciplines covered, it makes […]| Logarithmic History