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Chris Gatling in Current World Archaeology 127, October 2024 [see also https://www.world-archaeology.com] starts off by saying when the Portuguese, in AD1418, arrived in Madiera and

At https://www.sciencealert.com/we-may-have-found-where-modern-humans-and-neanderthals-became-one ... modern humans, in the Out of Africa hypothesis, are said to have explored outside Africa on several occasions, and encountered other human

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/everything-we-found-shattered-our-expectations-archaeologists-discovcr-1st-ancient-astronomical-observatory-from-ancient-egypt ... Egypt's first ancient astronomical observatory was found at the fairly late period site of Buto in Kefr El-Shiekh. A gateway, or pylon,

At https://www.sciencealert.com/surprise-discovery-reveals-hidden-lineage-of-ancient-japanese-ancestry ... the genes of modern Japanese people have been hiding a long lost line of ancestry. We now have another spike from NE

No mention of when the Falklands came into existence as an archipelago. Presumably it was much earlier than these new findings.  See https://phys.org/news/2024-09-rugged-falklands-landscape-lush-rainforest.pdf ... the

These are the headlines at https://www.sciencealert.com/jwst-confirms-distant-galaxy-was-murdered-by-a-black-hole .... observations of an ancient galaxy that was declared dead now have it confirmed by the James Webb Space

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-astronomers-biggest-black-hole-jets.html .... as well as numerous other science blogs such as https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240918125024.html ... the appearance of jets emanating from the centre of galaxies is 

At https://www.sciencealert.com/this-epic-monument-from-6000-years-ago-is-a-feat-of-stone-age-engineering ... the dolmen of Menga was built around 6000 years ago - and still stands to this day. It was built of stones

At https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/new-study-reveals-god-chaos-asteroid-apophis-could-still-hit-earth-in-2029-but-we-won-t-find-out-for-3 more-years..... a new simulation reveals there is a small chance the asteroid Apophis could be nudged on to a collision course with the

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-roman-siege-masada-weeks-years.html ... researchers from Tel Aviv University have used modern technology, such as drones and remote sensing, to generate an analysis of the Roman

At  https://phys.org/news/2024-09-uk-ireland-climate-tropical-million.html ... we are told that 26 million years ago the climate in the UK and Ireland was tropical. The assumption is the globe,

Cosmology theory does on occasion seem to be strange - or even stranger. It is, however, resistant to critique from outside the astrophysical world. Still,

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/tonga-eruption-tha-poured-150-metric-tons-of water-vapor-into-the-stratosphere-affected-the-atmosphere-for-years .... the Tonga submarine volcano which shot 150 metric tons of water vapour into the stratosphere will affect Earth's climate for years.

William sent in a link to a massive tsunami wave that struck the east coast of North America - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-three-mile-high-tsunami-that-churned-the-entire-east-cost/ss-AA1qMfuJ ....

Firstly, Gary sent a link to a You Tube film - on Doggerland. Lots of pictures. Doggerland [bottom of the southern basin of the North

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-archaeologists-neolithic-scandinavians-skin-boats.html ... the Scandinavian Pitted Ware Culture may have used skin boats to travel, to fish, to trade, and to hunt seals and fish

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240904130925.htm ... we are told a new model is able to identify phases of human dispersal across Europe. They were looking at population densities

Amazing picture of a rainbow outburst of aurora over Ostersund in Sweden - at https://spaceweather.com ... on the 12th and 13th of September of 2024.

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-century-theory-big.html ... and https://doi.org/10.3390/particles7030041 ... Fritz Zwicky, back in the inter war years, proposed that galaxies that were now distant from the earth did

At https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/sunspots-surge-to-23-year-high-as-solar-maximum-continues-to-intensify-far-beyond-initial-expectations .... the number of visible dark patches on the Sun's surface, as we see it, in the month of August, was higher than