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At http://phys.org/print383372337.html ... women during the Corded Ware cultural period in central Europe may have been highly mobile it is being proposed - or swapped

  At https://anthropology.net/2016/05/27/neanderthal-the-interior-cave-decora... ... the broken stalagmite pieces (see yesterday) were assembled into two oval rings 176,000 years ago, we are told. Together with them

At http://phys.org/print383372275.html ... the mtDNA of a Phoenician (possibly a Cathaginian) living 2500 years ago has been sequenced. He had the genes of a rare

At www.postandcourier.com/20160521/160529887/topper-site-find-reveals-peopl... ... the Topper archaeological site has revealed evidence of fire going back 50,000 years agao - long before humans are thought to have

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3593219/North-sea-reveals-7-000-... ... we have another tract of ancient forest revealed off the eastern coast of Britain - once joined to the continent (in this

At http://phys.org/print383295806.html ... are mystery Mars plumes caused by space weather? Back in 2012 a cloud like plume was spotted high above the surface of

At http://finance.yahoo.com/news/scientists-making-own-clouds-found-1746000... ... refers to a paper in Nature by CERN scientists and the subject is secondary particles. These were thought to be almost totally

The image below comes from www.spaceweather.com an excellent web site currently also doing noctilucent clouds with some nice images too.    an enormous swarm of

One example was forwarded by Bill Thompson - go to www.yahoo.com/news/climate-feedback-allows-scientists-correct-media-erro... ... but at http://notrickszone.com/2016/05/22/1959-paper-shows-most-warming-before-... ... wherein the title says it all. The first piece

At www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/did-neanderthals-die-out-because-p... .... Neanderthals had bigger brains than we have and a similar tool repertoire to early modern humans so why did they die out?

Tim Cullen is at his very best at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/05/22/ian-plimer-not-for-the-greens/ ... and they are most unlikely to look at the link which has two videos of

Evidence of pre-Clovis occcupation of N America is now being found more and more often - which just goes to show how much was being

Over a ton (in weight) of fossils has been gathered in Antarctica by a team of scientists. They include marine creatures, dinosaurs, and birds (see

Jupiter is hit by between 6 or 7 large impacts each year on average according to a group of amateur astronomers from around the world

This story is fascinating as it has a boy wonder with an amazing theory and some older critics that got hold of the wrong end

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/spring-2016/article/ancient-trading... ... which concerns a modern study of camel DNA and the movement of ancient caravans across the deserts of Arabia that may have

At www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/how-london-became-britain... ... one first has to wonder if Londinium was the capital of Britannia (rather than south east Britain) but assuming they are referring

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/spring-2016/article/archaeologists-... ... archaeologists have unearthed the bone of pre-Younger Dryas bison on a dig in Florida (among other interesting things) some ten feet below

Bronze tools found in Sweden dating to 1600BC were made using copper from the Mediterranean region. This is perhaps not surprising as a shipwrect off

At http://phys.org/print382011175.html ... a paper in May's issue of Nature concerns the discovery of intense winds found in the near neighbourhood of a black hole.