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Wildfires are known to have been frequent features of the Australian past - and Aborigines usually get the blame as they have a habit of

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/40000-year-old-rop... ... a German team (see Archaologische Ausgrabungen Baden Wurttemberg) have found a rope or twine making tool dating to the Aurignacian period (roughly

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Mammatus clouds are so named for their similarity to cow udders and underbelly    The clouds above appeared after a thunderstorm in Manitoba. They seem

   Under the Greenland glacier radar has revealed a web of canyons caused by former rivers. Live Science provided the image on the left and

Oh Dear. Auntie has been caught telling porkies. Doom monger Roger from Auntie has been on the air waves - he even provided the words

July 19th and 20th, the arrival of a G1 geomagnetic storm following the early arrival of a CME originally expected on the 21st. Expect some

William H McNeil died this week (July 15th) age 98 years - a very good innings. He was the author of 'Plagues and Peoples' (which

At www.godkingscenario.com/gks/hathor-isis-ptah-sokar-atum-sun-night-atum-r... .. is Gary Gilligan's theory - a new page added to his updated web site. We have a celestial equator as well as

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2016/article/the-ancient-wor... .... a hill, 118m high, on the coast of Aghios Prokopios on the island of Naxos (in the Cyclades) has outcroppings of chert

This one is a bit of a surprise. Just as we were about to accept that early farming evolved in the Fertile Crescent and the

At http://phys.org/print387794468.html ... fossil finds in China challenge the Out of Africa theory of the evolution of modern humans.    The Chinese have wondered if

At www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/14620182.Archaeologists_find_evidence_of... ... excavations in Aberlady have unearthed the foundations of a large building that has been dated by animal bone to between the 7th

This is almost sheer Velikovsky. At http://phys.org/print387788915.html ... the headline is, did a burning oil spill wipe out the dinosaurs. It seemed to me at

   An unstable sun spot has emerged on the face of the Sun after a few weeks of almost zero activity. We might be in

BBC News also had a report of the discovery of an extensive field system on the South Downs, including beneath woodland. The LIDAR images are

As the Must Farm excavations in the Cambridgeshire fens draw to a close we get a more balanced idea of the findings - go to

At www.spaceweather.com (July 15th 2016) ... it seems the big sun spot is not acive. It has a stable magnetic field and there is no

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.co.uk/2016/07/13/environmental-effect-of-inc... ... you can download a full paper by Arthur Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willie Soon. The Abstract reads ... a review of research

Homo erectus walked just like modern humans - see http://phys.org/print387534364.html ... which was proved by the discovery of footprints said to be one and a