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At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240930212840.htm ... it seems it may have been an explosion that set the Tonga submarine volcano in motion. It may not even have been

Zoroastrianism is another religion, or cultural memory, that had an emphasis on fire pits and ritual. Christians and Moslems have both rejected the idea of

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-unexpected-discovery-early-sweet-potato.html ... research in New Zealand, with a dollop of woke, has found evidence of taro, yam, and sweet potato cultivation that was going

At https://notrickszone.com/2024/09/28/climate-complexities-recent-solar-storms-may-have-promoted-cloud-formation/ ... an interesting paper but difficult to get your head around. It will therefore be ignored by the great and the good. The

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-moon-captured-space-collision-particles.html ... it seems the idea the moon was captured by Earth may be making a comeback. Various 'missions' to the Moon have come

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-tree-reveal-jet-stream-extreme.html ... here we have a post that claims tree ring data reveals the jet stream has shaped extreme weather in Europe for centuries.

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-hubble-black-hole-stellar-eruptions.html ....Hubble discovers that a black hole beam prompts stellar eruptions as it streams through the galaxy. Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-quantized-redshift-big-hypothesis.html ... we learn the quantised red shift challenges the Big Bang hypothesis. A Dopler shift is defined as a change of frequency of

Also in Current World Archaeology 127, October 2024 - see https://www.world-archaeology.com ... we have an article on the archaeology of SE Arabia - primarily Bronze

In Current World Archaeology 127, October 2024 [see https://www.world-archaeology.com] we have an article on excavations around the ring sanctuary of Pommelte in Saxony-Anhalt. It is

Chris Gatling in Current World Archaeology 127, October 2024 [see also https://www.world-archaeology.com] starts off by saying when the Portuguese, in AD1418, arrived in Madiera and

At https://www.sciencealert.com/we-may-have-found-where-modern-humans-and-neanderthals-became-one ... modern humans, in the Out of Africa hypothesis, are said to have explored outside Africa on several occasions, and encountered other human

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/everything-we-found-shattered-our-expectations-archaeologists-discovcr-1st-ancient-astronomical-observatory-from-ancient-egypt ... Egypt's first ancient astronomical observatory was found at the fairly late period site of Buto in Kefr El-Shiekh. A gateway, or pylon,

At https://www.sciencealert.com/surprise-discovery-reveals-hidden-lineage-of-ancient-japanese-ancestry ... the genes of modern Japanese people have been hiding a long lost line of ancestry. We now have another spike from NE

No mention of when the Falklands came into existence as an archipelago. Presumably it was much earlier than these new findings.  See https://phys.org/news/2024-09-rugged-falklands-landscape-lush-rainforest.pdf ... the

These are the headlines at https://www.sciencealert.com/jwst-confirms-distant-galaxy-was-murdered-by-a-black-hole .... observations of an ancient galaxy that was declared dead now have it confirmed by the James Webb Space

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-astronomers-biggest-black-hole-jets.html .... as well as numerous other science blogs such as https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240918125024.html ... the appearance of jets emanating from the centre of galaxies is 

At https://www.sciencealert.com/this-epic-monument-from-6000-years-ago-is-a-feat-of-stone-age-engineering ... the dolmen of Menga was built around 6000 years ago - and still stands to this day. It was built of stones

At https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/new-study-reveals-god-chaos-asteroid-apophis-could-still-hit-earth-in-2029-but-we-won-t-find-out-for-3 more-years..... a new simulation reveals there is a small chance the asteroid Apophis could be nudged on to a collision course with the

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-roman-siege-masada-weeks-years.html ... researchers from Tel Aviv University have used modern technology, such as drones and remote sensing, to generate an analysis of the Roman