tjw quoted The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …
Others note scattered evidence for the city's extension over a far greater area, maybe three times this size - we'd have to call them 'Lower, Lower Towns' - long since submerged by floodplain soils: a poignant illustration of that conspiracy between nature and culture which so often makes us forget that shanty dwellers even exist.