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The oldest surviving graffiti on a cave wall immortalizing an intimate bond in the third century BCE; charred seeds and chewed animal bones that provide evidence of a peoples' food obsessions; sculptures that reveal facets of the human-animal relationship. In Time Pieces, award-winning historian Nayanjot Lahiri sifts through clues left behind by the early inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent - in plaques and inscriptions, fragments of jewellery, bones and tools, poetry, art and pottery - to reveal to us our ancient land in all its variety, splendour and contradictions.

Dr. Curtis Varnell is a long time educator and historian. With numerous books already to his name about rural Arkansas and folklore, Dr. Varnell began writing weekly segments for local newspapers that talked about everything from cotton farms to unsolved murders. These are his stories, as written by him, with a creative perspective that is the signature of his work.