I've logged this story before, I think, but here it goes again - from a different source (www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/03/12/87456-horton-q...). The newspaper cutting I have is dated March 15th 2013 where dwhiteway@berksmedia.co.uk writes about excavations at Kingsmead Quarry in Stanwell Road, Horton, on the back road loop to Heathrow, missing out blockages on the M25 (always a short cut, especially at rush hour).

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uog-nei042613.php ... the study of a Neolithic community at Karleby in Sweden has come up with some interesting results after scientists from the University of Gothenberg analysed samples taken from the soil. They were looking for clues on diet but what they found was apparently evidence for the use of nitrogen as a fertiliser to enhance the growth of wheat and barley crops. However, as the site goes back deep into the third millennium BC might the nitrogen have another point of origin?

A third millennium BC rich burial has been found near Windsor, reputed to be 4400 years old - see www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fourthousand-years-old-go...

The woman, wearing a knecklace of folded sheet good, amber and lignite beads, and a bracelet of lignite beads, seems to mark the burial of somebody special - it is hypothesized. All the materials could have had an origin in the British Isles, the gold from Wales or Ireland, the amber from the N Sea coast and the lignite from a variety of sources.

At the height of the Late Glacial Maximum, 22,000 years ago, humans were living in NE Brazil, according to a new evaluation of the disputed evidence. O course, a lot of resistance is to be expected but Christelle Lahaye (French) and colleagues have reached this decision after excavating a rock shelter that was clearly of great age. However, the dates are derived from the sediments in which the stone tools were found, leaving the controversy open to criticism. This has began already - questioning the ability of the team to do their job properly (but only in so many words).