Shallow Time: The Burren Angeliki Diakrousi in the moment of our

in the moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature

Etienne Turpin

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

She is the London columnist for British Heritage magazine and is on the Q&A panel of experts for History Revealed magazine

Shallow Time: The Burren Angeliki Diakrousi in the moment of ourHumans lack the capacity to comprehend geological time, a breadth unfathomable from our biological perspective. Our callous extraction of resources negates the patience of geomorphology. The Burrens karst landscape instinctively rejects the notion of deep time. Its proximity to the visible surface belies its layered creation over millennia. It is a unique terrain where natural processes can be appreciated rather than exploited. A landscape that can be