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The BBC pundits were full of it today (Thursday the 25th) and the science correspondent had on his 'very serious' face mask as he read

Stitching a hole in their shirts may have been a problem ovecome by the Denisova contemporaries of Neanderthals. These people lived in central Asia before

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160809095145.htm .... the discovery of a circular earthwork enclosure in southern Spain, dating to the Bell Beaker period (2600-2200BC) is interesting as we don't

Yes, plate tectonics on Mars - you heard that right (go to http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-scientist-discovers-plate-237303.... ... (alternatively, www.space.com/17087-mars-surface-marsquakes-plate-tectonics.html) ...  An Yin, a UCLA scientist, claims rudimentary Plate

Speaking of rings (yesterdays post) the same subject is uncannily the feature of an article today at Universe Today (see http://phys.org/print391077112.html ). It is an

At http://phys.org/print391077030.html ... the signature of a supernovae has been found in deep ocean cores from the Pacific Ocean. German scientists have had their findings

Surprisingly, SIS has not published a great deal on stone circles as far as major articles are concerned. It tends to have been small pieces

Somebody else that does not buy the idea Easter Islanders soiled their own nest as proposed by environmentalists a few years ago. It's getting pretty

Jovan Kesic forwarded the link www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/fifth-force-permeate-universe0818... ... it seems theoretical physicists are saying they have found a fifth force. The comments are not exactly confident

   At http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0252-found-grave-of... ... the body in the grave comes from the Okunev Culture in the Republic of Khakassia. These are thought to be the

Jovan Kesic forwarded this link, www.kepler.edu/home/index.php/articles/history-of-astrology/item/324-ori... ... is an interesting post on a subject usually brushed aside as pseudo science and not given a second

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2016/article/tools-as-weapons/ ... is a report on a study in the journal Scientific Reports (August 2016) hwich is about the use of round stones at

Clark Whelton forwarded the link at www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-08-17-clocks-tree-rings-could-reset-chronologies-... ... Oxford University researchers say that trees that grew during intense radiation events in the past have left

Last year the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project was surveying at Durrington Walls henge and they thought the Geophys had turned up a circle of buried

Nerik is mentioned in Hittite texts found at ancient Hattusas in Late Bronze levels. Nerik has now been found and identified by archaeologists -= go

Archaeo-astronomy in Britain has been a place where most archaeologists have been fearful to tread since the campaign to marginalise Alexander Thom took place many

At http://phys.org/print389602786.html ... there is a video of Rosetta's journey around Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko - starting in July of 2014. Meanwhile, at www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-dwarf-planet-found-far-beyond-pluto/ ... which

Most oceanic crust is thought to be no more than 200 million years of age. This is necessary if Plate Tectonics is a reality, the

At www.spaceweather.com (August 16th) (see menu on LH side of web page) ...      space lightning over China, August 13th, photographed by Phebe Pan. He

I think I did this story last week when it was doing the round of the blogs but here we go again courtesy of a