At https://phys.org/news/2026-06-radiocarbon-dating-years-human-occupation.html … Spanish researchers have constructed a new database of 124 C14 dated samples from a location in the Pyrenees mountains. It confirms human occupation of the region, at sites over 2000 m high, throughout the Holocene period. From 10,000 years ago down to the modern world. Post Younger Dryas. One has to remember that the Early Holocene warm period made sites in the mountains more agreeable to settlement. See also https://doi.org/10.13131/unipi/3fem-pb67 …
At https://phys.org/news/2026-06-year-stone-fresh-evidence-king.html …. fresh evidence of Hezekiah’s religious reform. A 2700 year old standing stone at Tel Eton, in Judah [a massebah], is the centre of the study. Most archaeological discussion of Hezekiah’s reform has mostly focussed on public cultic sites. These include the temple at Arad and the evidence of cult at Beersheba.
At https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ancient-dna-uncovers-deadly-plague.html … the plague that struck the ancient world in around 3200BC [3500 on IntCal] seems to have affected Siberian hunter gatherer people too. Any chance it had an atmospheric distribution? That was a favourite theme of Chandra Wickramasinghe.