Fat monks, canny Scots

Some brief notes in the Times of London about recent archeological discoveries, including "a carbon-dating programme by the National Museum of Scotland [that] shows that some subsequent innovations of settled life are known earlier there than anywhere else in these islands", and a "study of skeletons from three of London’s medieval monasteries [that] suggests that the plump stereotype of films and television series was an accurate one."

Posted by David on August 8, 2005 10:25 PM