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At www.livescience.com/39307-jerusalem-animal-sacrifice-found.html ... we have Israeli archaeologists sifting through a city dump dating back to the Herodian period where they have found huge numbers of

Biblical Gezer shows evidence of two fiery conflagrations in the early biblical period. One is at the end of the LB age and the other

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/cave-paintings-amo... ... prehistoric wall paintings in the Altxerri cave system in northern Spain are said to date back to 39,000 year ago (safely within

Current World Archaeology 61 also has a piece by Prof Bill Finlayson, on the Levant. Just ten years ago the consensus view was dominated by

Current World Archaeology 61 (10th Anniversary Edition, Oct 2013) - see also www.world-archaeology.com has a short piece on Europe's earliest (so far) bone tools -

One of the abiding images of the early CAGW doomsaying was the chilling prospect of rapidly rising sea levels. Al Gore made a mint out

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/09/16/troy-homers-plasma-holocaust/ ... is an hypothesis by Mungo Jupp, on the demise of the cities of Mycenae and Troy. He claims a plasma event was

Nir Shariv of the Racah Institute of Physics in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem can be seen on video addressing the German EIKE conference on

This is the biggest black hole yet. Feast your eyes. Is it a hole or a blast of energy as light? The story is at

Everyone makes fun of climate models - what are they missing? Why are they always running too hot? Why don't they comply with reality? ...

At http://phys.org/print298706437.html ... plasma is a hot gas where molecules become ionised - in effect, charged particles. Plasma is abundant in the universe but on

At http://phys.org/print298800472.html ... some scientists are proposing a revision of Big Bang. They say the birth of the universe may have happened after a four

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/18/claim-similuated-satellite-data-ba... ... this one is a real classic. Satellite data has only been around for a limited time so what have this group of

First you go this way, wiggles around, in out in out and shake it all about, and then you go that way, do the ....

This question comes up all the time. What actually happened around 40,000 years ago. The old chestnust that Neanderthals were conservative in their diet no

The liberal elite like to claim that Mrs Thatcher (and Ronald Reagan) won the battle - but they won the war. This is of course

At http://phys.org/print298346381.html ... research at Princetown University and the Swiss Institution of Technology in Zurich have discovered the wobble of the Earth on its axis

Mike Pitts has posted some interesting photographs of Stonehenge from the 1980s - courtesy of another archaeologist. This one caught my eye Se http://mikepitts.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/where-was-the-stonehenge-festi...

Member Gary Gilligan has responded to the question - noctilucent clouds; what would our ancestors have made of them? (particularly during periods of heavy meteoric

Not the very modern humans but those that were around 40,000 years ago - see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130913093314.htm A rock shelter in Lebanon has produced human fossil