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Polished stone axes, and similar axes made of copper and bronze, are sometimes thought to represent lightning stones - which suggests a connection with lightning

The idea of great migrations and new influences on cultures went out of fashion in the 1960s to 1990s - as a result of Marxist

David Reich, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, pops up again in an article in Current World Archaeology 72 (Aug, 2015) (see www.world-archaeology.com). He

A small piece in the news section of Current World Archaeology 72 (Aug, 2015) (see www.world-archaeology.com) caught my eye - as these things do. Some

At http://phys.org/print357231085.html ... new research by US geologist James Kennett (and an international team) have an article in PNAS (July 27th 2015). They have used

As we approach the Paris climate change summit it is worth going back to the Copenhagen summit of a few years ago. This was a

At http://phys.org/print356795958.html ... the consensus view is that farming began in the Fertile Crescent around 12,000 years ago (at the beginning of the Holocene). However,

  David Reich, Harvard Medical School professor of genetics, is the author of a study that show a link between Amazon people and Australasia. The

New Scientist has published new information on the human imprint discovered along the Amazon river and its tributaries It seems the river was once lined

Mars Curiosity Rover vehicle has found bedrock with high levels of silica - see http://phys.org/print356943672.html ... mudstone and sandstone has allso been discovered. Three bright

The Conversation, a US politic rag that is a bit self righteous and 'right on' has apparently had a hissy fit. At http://phys.org/print356942688.html ... we

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/07/16/the-three-faces-of-the-giss-land-o... ... is an interesting post by Bob Tisdale, a specialist on ENSO events (and well clued up). He has looked at US data

At http://phys.org/print356248555.html ... news of an interesting theory that evolution of life was driven by Plate Tectonics. One could substitute the latter for catastrophims and

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/uoc--gap072115.php ... a genome study at the University of California-Berkeley has concluded Native Americans ae descended from a single migration from Siberia which they

At http://crev.info/2015/07/feathered-velociraptor/ ... there is a post with the title, 'Feathered Velociraptor - untangling the Spin' and refers to the Nature journal 'Scientific Reports' on

The Circle of God by Brian Hobley will set you back £105 but it appears to be a pretty comprehensive study which may attract SIS

The flyby of Pluto by a NASA mission to the far reaches of the solar system has caught the imagination of the media, and Joe

At http://phys.org/print356593679.html ... apparently, soft tissue is often preserved in fossils - such as worm sperm from Antarctica (80 million years ago). Such worms reproduce

Useful links as we are having a talk on comets at our autumn speaker meeting. At http://phys.org/print356337886.html ... Comet PanSTARRS made an appearance in northern

At http://phys.org/print356258414.html ... a dinosaur with wings, and feathers, and it is reminiscent in outline to the 'Jurassic Park' Velociraptor - being described as a