What We Are Reading Today: ‘Prehistoric Textiles’ by E.J.W.Barber

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Updated 26 January 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Prehistoric Textiles’ by E.J.W.Barber

This pioneering work revises our notions of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East.

Using innovative linguistic techniques, along with methods from paleobiology and other fields, it shows that spinning and pattern weaving began far earlier than has been supposed.

“Prehistoric Textiles” made an unsurpassed leap in the social and cultural understanding of textiles in humankind’s early history.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls’ by Christen E. Civiletto

Updated 15 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls’ by Christen E. Civiletto

Environmental attorney Christen Civiletto relates how the major chemical kingpins of the 20th century relentlessly and indiscriminately laid waste to Niagara Falls in her eye-opening, harrowing, intimate new book, “Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls.”

Expertly interweaving environmental crime, history, and memoir, “Thundering Waters” exposes the astonishing story of exploitation and ongoing abuse lurking in the shadows of one of the world’s most treasured natural wonders.