In the News

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

At http://joannenova.com.au/2015/11/new-science-20-its-not-co2-so-what-is-t... ... is instructive in that it explains why climate scientists do not foresee the Sun playing a role in global warming. This is

Gary sent in both these links. Thank you. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3327264/Never-mind-Big-Bang-Life... and www.sciencetimes.com/articles/7748/20151122/life-earth-began-whiff-oxyge... ... apparently, life on earth began as a result of a big breath

This link was sent in by Gary. Apparently, some scientists have discovered a huge fossil forest buried in deep sediments and preserved intact that goes

Alfred de Grazia, in his book 'The Divine Succession' made a connection between catastrophic events, and peaks and troughs in religious experiences. We live in

Paul Devereux wrote a couple of books back in the 1980s on earthquake lights and electro-magnetic discharges associated with earthquakes which had a New Age

Lovely programme on BBC 4 last night, on the Amazon and the discovery of towns and plazas and a wonderful fertile soil which included charcoal,

At www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/was-pottery-invented-process-fish ... which is a peculiar question to ask - why would anyone know the answer? True, the Japanese were using pottery a long

Flooding events are surprisingly common. There are surprising amounts of water in northern Britain at the moment (heavy and persistent rain swelling rivers)and as an

At http://sciencenordic.com/scientists-discover-cause-behind-prehistoric-cl... ... we have an article with the sub-title - 'scientists now know why the climate underwent dramatic changes at the end of the

A few weeks ago we had a post on mammals in the Jurassic, contemporary with the dinosaurs. Now they are talking about mammals in the

Some nice pictures of recent YTaurid meteorites are still being taken - see www.spaceweather.com and http://phys.org/print366884072.html. Not quite as David Asher forecast - but nice

At http://phys.org/print366883655.html ... it seems NASA spotted a cloud of dust surrounding Mars close to its atmosphere. It is not thought to originate from Mars,

Robert Farrar sent in the link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3321354/The-mysterious-cousin-li... ... we have a post on the Denisovans which may have been lost in a mail sack

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/ancient-genome-from... ... the story begins with a genome taken from a skull in a cave in Ethiopia dating back 4500 years. The genome of

Wonderful post by a maverick at Anthony's place this week - by one Caleb Shaw (go to http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/11/12/micro-critters-rule/ ... where we learn that the CAGW

At http://phys.org/print366291551.html ... we learn that thermal scanning of the pyramids have identified anomalies in them. These appear to involve heat zone - areas with