Singing along to 'Paperback Writer' 40 years ago on holiday in the back of my grandparents' old VW camper van, I honestly never thought I'd become one. But today, I am!
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Nic Wilson
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For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. This despite all the evidence & Zimbabwe meaning 'houses of stone' in the Shona language.
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For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. This despite all the evidence & Zimbabwe meaning 'houses of stone' in the Shona language.
Kristie De Garis
Kristie De Garis
Tune in here for drystone wisdom by @kristiedegaris.bsky.social
'Drystone has made me feel that change is possible. We so rarely get to shape the environments we live in. We so rarely get to be part of an embodied, physical legacy. Drystone has changed my relationship to the past, present and future. To how I experience time and consequence, but also action.’
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Sunday's Drystone Diary will explore Whose History Is Worth Keeping?
You can read the first installement here
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Piece in the Scotsman about my relationship with drystone before my appearance at Boswell Book Festival on 9th May.
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The first Drystone Diary is live. What drystone actually is, how it works, and why it matters.
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The ancient aliens industry applies the same logic to Sacsayhuamán in Peru.
Yet nobody questions who built the impressive structures in Rome or Greece.
