The first report is positive and the second much less so. At www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10884719 ... we have a story on some old coins found on a beach in the Northern Territory. They have been identified as having an origin in Arabian colonies along the east coast of Africa. To be precise, the Kilwa sultanate, on an island off the coast of Tanzania. They may be 1000 years old. The author was not in the least negative. In contrast, at http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/did-japanese-fishermen-di... ...

David Pratt has his own web site but has published an article in the March 2013 NCGT journal and provides some interesting information you won't find in mainstream sources ... problems concerning the consensus model of Pole movement - see www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php.

Don't know if this is important but at www.livescience.com/31983-minoans-were-genetically-european.html ... is a reference to skeletons going back 3700 to 4400 years ago that have been found to be very similar to present day Cretans and Neolithic Europeans in general. The findings dispute an older idea that claimed Minoan civilisation was the result of migration from outside the Aegean, most notably from Egypt or the Levant.

Bob Porter, SIS member and New Chronology advocate, writing archaeological updates for our journal (usually in Review) has made a reply at NewChronology@yahoogroups.com which has some interesting repercussions. He refers to two papers on Emar, a town on the Euphrates to the south of Carchemish (in the Bronze Ages), concerning the interpretation of the archives (clay tablets).