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I like this one as I can remember struggling, years ago, with trying to comprehend stone tool technology, and why the Middle Palaeolithic was so

The Tall el-Hammam excavation has ended for another year. It is an excavation heavily orientated towards the Bible and from that position, the director, Steven

  coronal mass ejection on March 11th. Go to http://spaceweather.com

An interesting piece of research - see http://phys.org/print345105547.html .... we've all heard of the dust in space created by comets and asteroids on their journeys

This story is at www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/fm-era030415.php ... and concerns ongoing excavations at Diros Bay in Greece. The remains of an ancient settlement and graveyard (with megalithic

I'll leave you to read the link. Unintended consequences from Green policies - a never ending saga - go to www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/3/9/ditch-the-greens-if-you-want-to-keep-t...

At http://westerndigs.org/stone-tool-unearthed-in-oregon-hints-at-oldest-hu... .... this excellent web site has come up with another humdinger. A multi-purpose stone tool made from an orange agate was unearthed at

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31664162 ... rogue planets are forcing astronomers into a rethink of the birth of our solar system. Planetary pin balls are on the table

At http://phys.org/print344769202.html ... evidence of a massive tsunami wave that struck the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsular has been found. It is claimed it

At http://phys.org/print344585068.html .... surprise, surprise. Australian Aborigine people have stories about a fire devil that burnt people on the surace which they attributed as revenge

It is a well known theory that lightning causes fulgarites but an open access paper at http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G36255.1 ... for the Geological Society of America, claims

At www.livescience.com/48298-bronze-age-sundial-moondial-discovered.html ... a slab of rock discovered 20 years ago and having spent that time in the back of a museum in Russia has

At http://phys.org/print344225723.html ... star clusters forming in a remote part of the Milky Way. Apparently, this is not supposed to happen according to the consensus

Snails are often collected during archaeological excavations as they can provide evidence of the environment - species variety by species variety. For example, they were

This is a tale of two takes on a single paper in Nature journal (Feb 25th 2015) and the press release can be read at

At http://phys.org/print344070295.html ... more on the mysterious craters in Siberia. Global warming is blamed. Huffington Post - complete with all the scaries and some really

   This is an image of a clay tablet with cuneiform writing, as practised in ancient Babylonia. The said tablet is one of over a

At www.livescience.com/49937-ancient-reptile-tracks-mass-extinction.html ... we are told the end of Permian mass extinction event may even have wiped out marine worms and other burrowing creatures that

Yes, shortly after Big Bang, a mere 900 million miles away, a huge quasar formed - with a central supermassive black hold for company -

Seems like two consensus theories are now in a head lock, being used as a battering ram in support of each other. Gary Gilligan forwarded