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   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

Not so much inside science I suppose but inside the heads of journalists and some scientists. At http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/eric-metaxas/perhaps-ancients-werent-s... ... sent in by William Thompson this

Jovan Kesic has come up trumps again. He provides the link to www.scientificamerican.com/article/yellowstone-s-supervolcano-gets-a-lid/ ... simmering beneath the hot springs and geysers it is claimed lurks

At www.astronomy.com/news/2016/08/this-object-may-open-up-new-solar-system-... ... Pan STARRS survey of the solar system  has found a cosmic body on a strange orbit - it is way above the

   Looks like the squatting man image has turned up on a beach in Hawaii. At http://phys.org/print390114735.html ... the figure was etched into sandstone rock.

At http://phys.org/print390130975.html ... we are back on the Venus was once habitable computer simulation exclamation. At www.holoscience.com/wp/venus-isnt-our-twin/ ... we have Wal Thornhill's take on Venus

Again, another strange article from Scientific American - an attempt to bamboozle the conspiracy theorists and end of world doom mongers (that is sure to

Reference the post a couple of days ago on modelling that came up with a habitable Venus some 715 million years ago. Well, the full

This is a good one. It now seems you can so anything with computer simulation. At http://phys.org/print389947158.html ... modelling has shown Venus could have been

A nice piece of observation by a marine ecologist doing work for NOAA - evidence that humpback whales drive off orca pods attacking other marine