How important is dirt? Try as we may to avoid it, according to our guest this hour – University of Washington Professor David R. Montgomery, lowly dirt may be a more powerful shaper of human history than we think. Montgomery’s new book is “Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations” (University of California Press, 2008).
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