Long before anyone wrote down the word for it, people were already reading the world. The problem for anyone who wants to tell the history is that the practice is much older than the record of it. Divination almost certainly reaches back into prehistory, into a human past that left us no texts, only objects. So a true history cannot begin where divination began. It has to begin where the evidence begins, and the evidence begins in bone, entrail, and clay. This is the first installment of Signs & Omens. Since we are only now meeting, a brief word about who is writing. My name is Kat Marshall, and I…