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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

Gary sent in this link. At www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151110/ncomms9751/full/ncomms9751.html ... and for double the effect see www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3312097/Lost-sands-time-Hidden-a... ... we learn that not so long ago, in the

  this image is at www.spaceweather.com November 13th (2015) and is a giant dark filament or magnetic coil seen on the face of the Sun.

This is a reference to a web site that will interest some readers - www.ancient-origins.net ... it covers such things as human origins, myth, strange

An exercise in uniformitarian dilution of the evidence can be witnessed at http://phys.org/print365932414.html ... extinction events are reduced to depletion of vital trace elements. There

This story is at http://phys.org/print365933001.html ... in June 2015 a huge burst of energy erupted across the electro-magnetic spectrum of a binary system in a

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/forget-mars-anomaly-nasa/ ... and see also http://phys.org/print365966626.html .... we learn that NASAs MAVEN mission has provided researchers with the data to tell us what caused

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151103064601.htm ... scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology say that traces of cereals found at the bottom of Bouldnor Cliff in

At www.livescience.com/52700-mysterious-geoglyphs-in-kazakhstan-revealed.html ... it seems the New York Times date of 8000 years ago may not be up to scratch. Live Science asked the three

  www.spaceweather.com November 7th ... I've captured the image but not the video (the burst of light) so go to the link for that. You

An alternative theory to Out of Africa can be found at www.rafonda.com ... Ronald Fonda places the origins of Homo sapiens sapiens (modern humans) in