In the News

A lovely mix of stories here. At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140203131518.htm ... research at Tel Aviv University shows that domesticated camels were not introduced to the Levant until

The idea black holes don't exist, as espoused by Stephen Hawking, has been challenged by physicists according to www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/02/major-league-physicists-challenge-... ... although, as already noticed in

The Independent newspaper and various other sources such as the BBC are reporting that rabbits digging holes near Lands End have unearthed a treasure trove

At http://phys.org/print310388983.html ...  a paper in Astrophysical Research Letters by scientists from Bistol's 'School of Physics' concerns a computer simulation of how planets form around

We are going back over 100,000 years ago but at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/enormous-scale-of-n... ... is a wonder. We have a reconstruction of the landscape of the Nile

If you are into the Expanding Earth theory the land masses have been there all along and it is the oceans that have grown and

In early issues of SIS Workshop there were several references in Monitor, and a letter from Jill Abery, concerning the Mid to Late Miocene geological

At http://archaeologicalnewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk?2014/02/humanities-forgo... ... we have another story that brings to mind early SIS Workshops and the various writings of Nell Kluitman. In these, the impression

In a talk at the 1991 SIS AGM meeting in London (at the Library Association) one of the speakers, Bernard Newgrosh, likened the Sodom and

At http://phys.org/print310294198.html ... it seems NASAs Rover vehicle has dislodged a strange rock, white on the outside and red in the middle. It was described

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/c14-dates-question-... ... seem to show modern humans emerged in the Near East at the same time as elsewhere in western Asia and Europe, around

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/what-killed-great-b... ... one of the most implausable theories is that humans were capable of killing off the great herds of the Ice Age -

The letter is by WL Goodman of Bristol, and is as follows ... Dear Sir, it has always been a mystery to me why people,

AQt http://phys.org/print310115554.html ... we are told black holes are real, and they have a picture of one - a mass accreting black hole is a

At www.nature.com/news/grand-canyon-is-not-so-ancient-1.14584 ... and this is somewhat overdue some might say. The story brings to light a geological skirmish over the age of the Grand

At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Blue_eyes_and_dark_skin_thats_how_th... ...at first I thought this might be a bit of modern politikking but the research is published in Nature which would put that

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-026 ... NASAs NEOWISE mission has already clocked Comet Siding Spring (which is the 2014 hopeful) and this new comet is set to pass

The Usoskin and Kovaltsov paper at arXiv (see link on two posts previous to this one) is by two scientists who have previously written on

The Chinese paper on a comet involvement in the C14 spike at 775AD, as recorded in Tang astronomical records (Liu et al, Nature Science Report

Chesil Beach, between Weymouth and Abbotsbury, is a huge bank of pebbles, which are graded. Various theories exist about how it originated. However, behind the