In the News

At http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/scott-pruitt-is-absolutely-right-a... ... link sent in by William. One of Trump's fake news channels seems to have come up trumps by publishing this piece of

The latest piece of modelling a black hole is said to show a black hole can grow rapidly at the centre of a host galaxy

At https://phys.org/print408108341.html ... are impact craters laid down at random or is there a pattern. Do they occur periodically? This study suggests it is random.

Ava is the name given to a woman buried near Wick in northern Scotland over 4000 years ago. Beside her remains archaeologists found a beaker

At https://phys.org/print408280130.html ... a new study in Science Reports (March 9th) brings the Younger Dryas Impact Theory back to life after a couple of articles

At https://anthropology.net/2017/03/09/neanderthals-used-penicillin-and-asp... ... this story has been around for a week or so (see also https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/dental-plaque-dna-... ) ... a microbiologist at the University of Adelaide

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/aboriginal-hair-sh... ... DNA derived from hair samples taken early last century have been analysed for MtDNA and they are said to show they have

The epic wave is greater by far than the rogue wave (see yesterday), by many orders of magnitude. At the southern end of Madagascar (Malagasy)

At https://phys.org/print408197994.html ... a study finds that rogue waves are not as rare as thought. One of the steepest yet recorded passed by the North

At https://phys.org/print408099790.html ... a rare find of digested remains of food has been found inside the stomach of a dinosaur - fossilised. The find comes

We had a long article in the March issue of Current Archaeology on dolmens in Pembrokeshire. There are a lot of dolmens along the western

Sam Windsor has commented on the sudden increase in geomagnetism in the 8th century BC by saying that if heavenly fire was part of the

arch At https://phys.org/print407671813.html ... the subject is beetles in amber discovered in Spain, and the fact they shed light on the rise of flowering plants

At www.q-mag.org/huge-spike-in-geomagnetic-field-recorded-in-8th-century-b-... ... a huge spike in the geomagnetic field of the Earth is inferred pottery found in the 8th c entury BC kingdom of

At https://phys.org/print407589279.html ... black holes feed on large discs of gas we are told but sometimes black holes eat too much of the stuff. They

A study in the journal Science (see https://phys.org/print407677784.html ) concerns two archaic skulls uncovered in Xuchang in central China which appear to contradict some embedded

Interesting discussion going on at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/is-something-strange-happenin... ... which was prompted by recent volcanoes on Hawaii and at Etna in Sicily, among other things. See also

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/archaeologists-and... ... we have a hands on collision between archaeologists and historians with geneticists. One reason this has occurred is that both sides work

At www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.772111 .... brush huts, grass bedding, charred grains and lots of stone tool have been unearthed by the Sea of Galilee, going back 23,000

At www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-new/when-and-how-did-the-moon-form/ (sent in by Jovan Kesic) ... references various studies such as a Nature Geoscience article'When and How Did the Moon Form?'. It seems