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In the mountains of northern Spain, an archaeologist is tracking how caves, dugouts, and shelters were used in guerrilla warfare in the Spanish Civil War and the decades of strife that followed. The scars of this period remain raw, and make studying the archaeology of the period difficult.
Archaeologists confront painful memories of the Spanish Civil War
September/October 2017
This biographical piece tells the largely forgotten story of a trail-blazing man of letters, and the first South Asian writer and thinker to make an impact in the United States.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji was a prolific writer and an early cultural ambassador between East and West.
Deep in a lava tube in Iceland is what might be the oldest surviving Viking Age structure in the world. Is it evidence of a band of outlaws or rituals to suppress a world-destroying fire demon? I also provided photographs for the piece.
Viking Age outlaws, taboo, and ritual in Iceland's lava fields
This historical story, my first feature for Atlas Obscura, examines the history of how BDSM helped usher in third-wave feminism.
A brief history of lesbian sadomasochism, from the shadows to the front lines of the "Sex Wars."