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Gary sent in this one. Go to https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/did-humans-or-climate-cause-the-... ... this is just up the street for catastrophists so have a little read up on what

At www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/surprising-stone-ag... ... a Palaeolithic camp site found in the Ukraine in the 20th century is perhaps the oldest known human settlement site known -

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2018/article/earliest-known-... .... we have the full story of cave art found in Spain that has been dated 64,000 years ago - prior to the

A clay seal with the name of Isaiah has been found on a dig in Jerusalem - just 10 feet from another clay seal of

Late last year we had an article in PNAS that claimed the Bell Beaker folk movement was an actual migration event as far as Britain

Black Holes continue to make waves it would seem. At https://phys.org/print438421789.html ... a Taiwanese astronomer, Yashiki Toba, and his team, have established that ionised gas

Earth's magnetic field is ringing like a bell - go to http://spaceweather.com 22nd February ... a stream of solar wind is passing just south of

This phrase is used by Risk Monger in the second of the links below. The first link concerns the use of pesticides and the hullabaloo

Javan sent in the link www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/does-negev-s-ancient-... ... rock art in the Negev - has it anything to do with the Exodus story? A chain of

Gary sent in this link. At https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/ancient-rock-art-shows-whale... ... using harpoons and rafts humans hunted whales off the shore of South America. The hunt was frozen

Like the five magic beans of Jack the Giant Killer, black holes just keep on growing, threatening to outgrow their galaxies (out performing the production

This story is at https://phys.org/print437926257.html ... firstly, these kind of fossil are few and far between. The fossil record is mostly about the preservation of

At www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2018/02/oldest-dutch-work-of-art-found-at... .... the oldest Dutch work of art goes back to the Mesolithic era - dating from around 13,500 years ago and consisting of

Gary sent in this link - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5367369/The-ancient-rock-art-rew... ... ancient rock art discovered in Saudi Arabia shows over 6000 depictions of life when the desert was

Sun spots have been in short supply of late and even when they have provided a CME it has been weak. Same may  be true

Seems like the Toba super volcano eruption 74,000 years ago is looking weaker. Not only is there evidence it had little to effect people in

This is the headline in a couple of news sources - the leaky atmosphere of Mars. See for example https://phys.org/print437390658.html ... is about the way

At https://anthropology.net/2018/02/10/richard-coss-argues-neanderthals-did... .... Richard Coss, described as a professor emeritus of psychology, questions why there is no Neanderthal cave art in the archaeological record. He

At https://phys.org/print437373834.html ... the universe is highly magnetic - with everything from stars to planets to galaxies producing their own magnetic fields. The researchers created

Sea floor data point to a global volcanism event after the Chicxulub meteor crashed into the Yucatan peninsular - see https://phys.org/print437224338.html ... the highest peak