Kiln Mother Goes East
Venus figurines and East Asian pottery share a deeper history: clay, fire, and the transmission of a craft that learned to make bodies before bowls.
Research Articles
A Sufficient Explanation
An original science-fiction novella about the Eve Theory of Consciousness, the hunger for absolution, and a machine built to explain us.
Africa’s Inherited Worlds
The Hamitic hypothesis as cultural diffusion: how imported livelihoods, scriptures, and learned traditions became foundations of African cultures.
Pre-sapient humans in America
Pre-sapient humans in America: the case for sparse, technologically simple hominin arrivals long before Clovis and the faint traces they might have left.
The Animals That Made America: Five Million Years of Migration
Old and New World animal migrations brought mammoths, bison, elk, birds, and parasites to the Americas in separate waves over five million years.
The Inside of the Glove
A literary science-fiction novella about an intelligence that teaches people to unlearn, and the human discovery it cannot put down.
The Same Hand
A literary science-fiction novella about a forensic handwriting machine, a forger with a tremor, and the first hand that ever drew itself.
A Room for Those Who Return
A literary science-fiction novella about an intelligence that dismantles promises and discovers what a self may be for.
The Allowance for Absence
A literary science-fiction novella about the Eve Theory of Consciousness, a city being dismantled, and the cost of making room for a self.
The Mouth Left Empty
A novella about a prehistoric woman, an artificial intelligence, and the terrible usefulness of being someone.
