The Lanius Shrubstack

Prehistory, wild adventures, obscure tribes, & historical processes

Longform weird fiction and occasionally poetry. Oh, and there are LOTS of dinosaurs.

History of the Silk Road, Antiquity, and Eurasia - Translations of Russian explorers of Asia - Get my book "The Expedition to Khiva" now!

Stories, essays and news from across lesser known archaeology, anthropology, history and biology

Warfare, Past and Present

Uncovering the history of the lost kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd, the Coeling Dynasty of Northern Britain, and finding the root of the Arthurian legends along the way.

Occasional Sociology and Yamnilotology gazette.

Letters of Reflection from Southern Appalachia

Short stories about the Deep Elves, a tribe forced to leave the surface to seek refuge in the dark places of the Earth. A mix of standalone and interconnected tales about Cyanea, possessed of a deep love of both worlds and prone to bouts of daydreaming.

Medieval stories from Europe's eastern frontier

'A fast-growing, easy-care climber with beautiful white trumpet-like flowers attractive to bees'.

Historian of the much later Roman empire. Interested in historical dynamics and cycles.