A Rumor of Bones: a Lindsay Chamberlain Mystery
“Soon the sun would rise above the horizon and burn off the haze, and the site would be alive with the activity of archaeologists. But now, in the predawn hours, it was a mystic place-silent, stranded between the past and present. This was the time of day when Lindsay loved the site best. She could almost breathe in the past.Now, in the dim light, she could almost see the tall wooden palisade constructed from rough-hewn trees surrounding the village. Inside, she saw square wattle and daub houses with thatched roofs built around a plaza. Smoke rose from a central chimney hole in the middle of the broad, cone-shaped roofs and drifted southward with the breeze. Lindsay saw racks holding skins being tanned, others holding meat and fish being smoked and dried.She saw people-beautiful, dark-haired, dark-eyed, elegantly-boned people. In a house she could see one woman grinding corn on a metatae, another picking up discarded flaked chert debris and cutting up squash, pokeweed, chenopodium, and... scaling fresh fish.MoreLess
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