In the News

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/the-higgs-bison-mys... ... Ice Age artists depicted an unknown hybrid species of bison and cattle in great detail on cave walls around 15,000 years ago

You can see why scientists like to visualise dinosaurs as having had bird bones when you consider the remarkable feats of the frigate bird. Bird

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/chinese-archaeolog... ... a BBC television programme came out with the claim Greek sculpture directly influenced the rendition of the terracotta army in the tomb

At http://phys.org/print396196467.html ... a reed boat, the Viracocha III, is being built by Aymara Indians in Bolivia. American explorer Phil Buck claims Thor Heyerdahl was

At http://cphpost.dk/news/spectacular-archaeological-find-in-denmark.html ... we have a stone age map (one of several in fact) going back to the Neolithic in Denmark ...      ...

Perusing the summer 2016 newsletter of the Prehistoric Society (see www.prehistoricsociety.org) I came across the reason why and how the name of Doggerland was applied

At http://discovermagazine.com/2016/nov/mammoth-island ... the discovery of a mammoth tooth in a cave on St Paul's island, off the coast of Alaska (in the Bering Sea)

At www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/14/mayan-tombs-snake-kings-holmul-g... ...link provided by Gary Gilligan. The ancient ruins of Holmul in Guatemala date back to the 7th and 8th centuries AD and are

At www.godkingscenario.com/gks/tutankhamun-pectoral-gks-5 .... Gary Gilligan has continued to update his web site and has now incorporated the solar wind into an interpretation of the god

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-37624943 ...archaeologists are suggesting that inspiration for the terracotta warriors in the Tomb of the First Emperor may have come from ancient Greece (and

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/10/13/study-extraterrestrial-impact-pre... ... which is a strange web site to find an article about comets striking earth (as they were less than sympathetic with the

At http://phys.org/print395482259.html ... when the Venus transit took place (Venus passing between Earth and the Sun) opportunities existed to get a better view of the

At http://phys.org/print395510984.html ... a study in October's Nature Communications (2016) by Chang Liu et al based on images of the sun by HINODE and other

At http://phys.org/print395475386.html ... giant rings around an exoplanet. At http://phys.org/print395479480.html ... a team of astrophysicists at the University of Portsmouth have created a map of

At http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/ancient-human-footprints-afri... ... we learn of the discovery of footprints near the volcanic mountain the Maasai call the Mountain of God. They are preserved in

At www.astronomy.com/news/2016/10/the-newest-weird-solar-systems-lonely-hot... ... when scientists began cataloguing exoplanets they compared them to solar system bodies. Hence we have terms such as hot Jupiters and super

According to scientists the universe is not rotating or being stretched in any particular direction - see http://earthsky.org/space/our-universe-has-no-direction ... we are told the cosmologic consensus

We would not expect mainstream to endorse the idea of a catastrophic flood in the Black Sea as envisaged by the two Americans, Ryan and

There is a new web site out there - www.cometresearchgroup.org dedicated to neo-catastrophism and the idea of comets and their offspring, meteor showers, playing a

At www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/previously-unknown-line... ... provides some new perspectives on the Cedar Forest, abode of the monster Humbaba. It was a noisy jungle, it is alleged, and