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After writing a post on this subject a few days ago along comes Chris Catling with his thoughts on the subject in Current World Archaeology

Sent in by Robert - discovery of dark oxygen from deep sea metal bearing lumps could trigger a rethink of the origin of life on

William sent in the link, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/thought-lost-in-ww2-records-discovery-reveals-secrets-of-ancient-people/ar-AA1mD1Zx... a researcher has uncovered by accident a set of historical records thought lost during a bombing raid in WWII.

At https://phys.org/news/2024-07-alternatives-dark-cosmological.html .... has the headline - we need to reconsider alternative ideas to dark matter that better explain cosmological observations. Does the speed of

Genetic research is being used to document Neanderthal and Modern Human contacts and potential inter breeding episodes. This idea is then expanded to account for

At https://phys.org/news/2024-07-archaeologists-earliest-evidence-farming-east.html .... archaeologists report on the earliest evidence, so far, of plant farming in East Africa. In the foothlls of Mount Elgum on the

Sent in by William - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/10/science/plague-ancient-dna-europe-first-farmers/index.html ... ancient DNA reveals the possible cause of the mysterious population collapse 5000 years ago - the plague. We

Gary sent in a link to https://www.iflscience.com/woolly-mammoth-skin-freeze-dried-for-52000-years-delivers-first-ever-3d-chromosome-75043 ... a woolly mammoth found in NE Siberia was freeze dried 52,000 years ago which has preserved its

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/norways-dragons-eye-the-fantastical-pothole-that-emerged-from-ice-16000-years-ago ... the Dragon's Eye, we are told, probably formed around 20,000 years ago, when Scandinavia was buried underneath ice. The Dragon's Eye is

This is a good example of human abilities to keep the agenda spinning even when it is contradicted by observation. Or that is what it

Sent in by Gary - at https://phys.org/news/2024-07-zooplankton-traditional-views-evolution.html  ... genetic changes in a naturally isolated population of the water flea - daphnia pulex. This is a

It is known that glaciers on the Alps rapidly spread downwards as a result of contemporary written records, during the 16th and 17th centuries AD.

At https://popular-archaeology.com/article/siege-ramps-and-breached-walls-ancient-warfare-and-the-assyrian-conquest-of-lachish/ .... a 2021 article published by Popular Archaeology sheds some more light on the Assyrian capture of Lachish - with a source in

At https://phys.org/news/2024-06-uncovering-prolonged-cooling-events-holocene.html .... which is derived from https://doi.org/10.1038/S43247-024-01380-0 ... There were eleven prolonged cooling episodes in the Holocene period - ending with the Little Ice

Sent in by William - https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/strange-stonehenge-discovered-in-lake-that-s-5-000-years-older-than-the-british-landmark/BB1pG4E3 ... an enigmatic stone circle was found beneath the waters of Lake Michigan in 2007. It is 5000 years

I'm reading Tom Holland's book, 'Rubicon' Abacus:2004, and it concerns the Roman republic - prior to Caesar reintroducing the institution of kings and emperors. In

Another link sent in by Gary - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02194-y ... a Buddhist monk, back in 1980, collected some bone samples from a cave in which he

Gary sent in the link https://www.unilad.com/technology/space/12-billion-year-old-water-discovered-space-916841-20240704 ... a huge reservoir of water in space. Found by astronomers using the telescope near the summit of Mauna

William sent in a link to https://www.msn.com/em-us/news/technology/scientists-left-confused-after-uncovering-ancient-rocks-that-hold-proof-of-the-earth-s-magnetic-field/ss-BB1oJOXk .... but see also https://www.space.com/earth-ancient-magnetic-field-puzzle-isua .... Rocks that have been dated to 3.7 billion years ago, on the

At https://phys.org/news/2024-06-extinct-walnut-species-high-arctic.html ... three new extinct walnut species have been discovered in a high arctic mummified foreest. It is situated on the Princess Margaret Mountians