Lore of the Jungle: unearthing treasures from the Calais camp
A new exhibition tells the human stories of the infamous refugee camp through the objects created, used and discarded there. Sarah Mallet calls herself a “normal” archaeologist. An expert on how English diets changed between the iron age and the medieval period, she is a member of a discipline whose bread-and-butter work might involve recording and dating, say, Saxon fibulae. But today, at Pitt Rivers anthropological museum in Oxford, she is holding out for inspection not of an ancie
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