Stories by Petiver

800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices

The Anthropometric Detective and His Racial Clues (2016)

What It’s Like to Care for the Mighty ‘Corpse Flower’ (2020)

Life Expectancy Among European Scholars from the 16th to the Early 20th Century

Killing it: From handaxes to spears, no difference in hunting (2020)

Splash: Review of Merpeople: A Human History

Sex, scandal and high society in Chips Channon’s uncensored diaries

The grisly trials that gave poison to prisoners

Order Amid Chaos: A poet-scientist considers the imponderables of existence

The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (2020)

A man who printed the world of plants

An Archeologist’s Guide to Beer Cans

How religion shaped modern economics

Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope Clement Tested Poisons

Baby Megalodons Were 6-Foot-Long Womb Cannibals, Study Suggests

Edward the Confessor, a model of piety, was a surprisingly effective ruler

Two Darwin Notebooks, Missing for Decades, Were Most Likely Stolen

The Horseshoe Crab: Same as It Ever Was?

Quantifying Vitality: The Progressive Paradox

The Orkney Finnmen Legends: From Early Modern Science to Modern Myth

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