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At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-35008564  ... excavations for a new building in the grounds of Lincoln University have turned up a Mesolithic camp site dating back up to

You've heard of 'two brains' Willetts (who never rose above the froth) but here we have a comet sporting two tails.       This is

One for the grandchildren. Lots of teeth. Crocodiles and Dinosaurs (go to http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/fossil-hunters-unea...).   Fossil hunters are a breed apart and get excited over the

The works of the old men is a bedouin term referring to thousands of stone structures in the Jordanian and Arabian deserts. Two wheels, or

The BBC has finally caught up with the news that a seal of King Hezekiah has been found by Israeli archaeologists.   At www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/king-hezekiahs-seal-discovered-in...... and

  At www.spaceweather.com (December 3rd, 2015) - coronal holes are where the Sun's magnetic field opens and allows the solar wind to escape. Hot plasma

At www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3337267/So-global-warming-winter-weathe... ... an interesting article with some nice photos - and a bit of scepticism just before the Paris bash. It doesn't say much,

As the climate jamboree gets under way there have been some nice contradictory blogs posted in the nether regions of the Net which serve to

Some interesting stuff on genetics at www.q-mag.org/we-contain-multitudes-1.html and www.q-mag.org/we-contain-multitudes-2.html which seem to suggest genetics is a bit more complicated than Joe Public has been led

no sun spots at the moment. Coronal hole has gone on walkabouts. What we looking at here is a Sun without sun spots but with

At http://phys.org/print367654055.html ... the mysterious dimming of the star KIC 8462852 is taxing the brains and imaginations of astronomers. It has been suggested a catastrophic

The ancient Cappadocian city with a labyrinnth of underground tunnels and chambers serving as living quarters and storage facilities, a mess of hidey holes, is

As we approach the Paris climate conference with BBC going full swoon on end of the world doomsayings and delegates priming up to feed their

Upper Tibet is basically the northern and western end of the plateau. We all know that Buddhism took fairly deep roots in Tibet - but

A good article on ozone depletion sent in by Robert Farrar - did we really save the ozone layer? The link is at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/26/did-we-really-save-the-ozone-layer/ ...

At http://notrickszone.com/2015/11/20/german-professor-examines-nasa-giss-t... ... the title explains the contents of the blog report which is now a widely known problem, first aired at Tony Heller's blog

At http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-11/20/c_134838032.htm ... the Chinese have unearthed a well preserved skull of Homo erectus which will be invaluable to anthropologists and people specialising in human

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2015/11/20/neolithic-man-and-the-electric-unive... ... starts with a dendritic pattern distinguished by vegetation near Ostia, the former port of Rome. The ridges can be clearly picked out.

Tom Dillehay is a controversial archaeologist as he was in charge of the excavations at Monte Verde in southern Chile. The controversy involved the dates

Well I never. The Glastonbury monks made it up. William Blake got it wrong. This has been suspected for a long time but archaeologists from