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Stonehenge axe symbols
19 December 2014 > ArchaeologyThis is an old post but worth looking at again. At www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/revealed-early-bronze-age... ... is about a laser scan of some of the sarsens that revealed

typhoon capers
19 December 2014 > CatastrophismAt www.sciencenews.org/article/super-typhoon-shoved-supersized-boulder ... we learn that the devastating typhoon that struck the Philippines in November of last year (2013)was so powerful a wave pushed a

It's 'not' an icy snowball
19 December 2014 > AstronomyAt www.sciencenews.org/article/rosetta-may-have-spotted-comet's-primordial-... ... the rugged terrain of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko was the subject of a talk at the 2014 AGU annual meeting in San Francisco (December,

Bankrupting Physics
18 December 2014 > PhysicsA book is now available, 'Bankrupting Physics: how today's top scientists are gambling away scientific credibility' and is written by Alexander Unzicker and Shiella Jones.

Space Waves
18 December 2014 > AstronomyNASA, on 16th December, in a news release, said that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, at the edge of the solar system, had experienced three shock

Teotihuacan
18 December 2014 > ArchaeologyThe pyramids of Teotihuacan, located just outside modern Mexico City, is a vast complex that was abandoned for over 1000 years when the Aztecs migrated
Asteroids and Meteors
18 December 2014 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print338024091.html ... below is an image of cliffs on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, processed by one Stuart Atkinson. The cliff is nearly verticle See also

Fountains of the Deep
18 December 2014 > GeologyAt http://phys.org/print338021988.html ... hydrogen rich waters have been discovered deep underground in different locations around the world - including Canada, South Africa and Scandinavia. This

Stratospheric Warming bring Snow to Somewhere near You
14 December 2014 > ElectromagnetismTim Cullen at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/a-christmas-recipe-for-snow/ ... makes the point the Sudden Stratospheric Warming events show that the polar vortex is an electro magnetic phenomenon in that

67P and counting
14 December 2014 > AstronomyComet Churyumov Gerasimenko, known also as 67P, is almost as black as coal - but images show it as grey - see http://phys.org/print337631011.html ... This

Back to Front
14 December 2014 > CatastrophismAt http://phys.org/print337590873.html ... a group of geologists from MIT and further afield claim there was a major volcanic eruption just prior to the asteroid strike

Light without the Sun
12 December 2014 > CatastrophismAt www.GenesisFile.com ... there is, according to a recently received email suggesting we might take a look at the site, there is a presentation of

Hopewell demise - 400AD
12 December 2014 > ArchaeologyIn the Journal of Archaeological Science (December 2014) there is an article on blades and flints from the Hopewell Culture (Ohio, Missouri, Tennesee) - see

Rosetta, are you wetter
12 December 2014 > AstronomyAt http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/07/virtis-detects-water-and-carbon-... ... as the data is being processed and we may have to wait a while for sound evidence it is worth going back

Greenland Ice Sheet
12 December 2014 > DatingTim Cullen has come up with two more posts on how the ice cores were calculated - which will not please the defenders of the

The Axis Age
8 December 2014 > Ancient historyMichael Wood, in BBC History magazine (Christmas issue 2014) writes from China - and specifically, from the birth place of Confucius. In East Asia the

The 2300BC event hits Orkney
8 December 2014 > ArchaeologyAt http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/08/neolithic-orkney/smith-text ... the temple complex at the Ness of Brodgar was built around 3000BC but only some 10 per cent of stone buildings at

It's a Hoot
6 December 2014 > Climate changeHumour is a useful tool, especially when outnumbered. At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/12/05/friday-funny-over-a-centurys-worth... ... this is a guest post (not by Anthony) and is mostly a light hearted

Another vindication of Steve Mitchell
4 December 2014 > ArchaeologyThe relevant article is in Current Archaeology 298. It is currently on sale in Smiths over the Christmas period, and no doubt some other newsagents.
Climate Weirding and Shifting Sands
4 December 2014 > ArchaeologyWeirding of the weather aka 1952. In a BBC news report from deepest Shropshire we learn of the uncovering of 27 cottages that were destroyed