In the News

Yes, David Rohl has a blog. I didn't realise that and I expect not a lot of SIS people knew that either. In one blog

At www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,394464,polish-archaeologists-have-d... oldest-houses-in-africa.html .... which goes back an estimated 70,000 years (to be verified) according to the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology in Poznan, which

At http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/09/17253655-earth-gets-a-rush-o... ... the Russian meteor has been followed by a succession of near misses, it would seem, and not just those that broke in

At www.messagetoeagle.com/taklamakan.php#.UT8CC1arKdM ... we learn the Takla Makun desert in China, with its shifting sands, might be hiding some interesting archaeology. Sandwiched as it is

Due to conflicting results from C14 methodology scientists have used coral tools as a dating medium in order to find when exactly the Lapita culture

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/nasa-solar-wind-energy-source-... ... NASA think they might have found the origin of solar wind via the WIND spacecraft )see http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2013/03/08/splash_big.jpg). The source of the heating

At same link, www.cracked.com/article_20206_5-shockingly-advanced-ancient-buildings-th... ...the Marib Dam in the Yemen, is featured with some nice images of how it is now. This must have been

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/08/a-bridge-in-the-climate-debate-how... ... Anthony has become rather excited by a video from a TED talk by an environmental scientist and biologist who has worked around

You'd think so when you read the piece at http://phys.org/print281961666.html ... as there are a lot of people out there that have a career revolving

It seems the recent Russian meteor did in fact generate seismic waves that were picked up in the US by seismographic stations. They are used

This came from http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/andrew-cooper-were-the-recent-... ... Roger, the tall one, took this from a comment made at an earlier post, http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/2012-da14-how-to-watch-tomorro... in which Andrew Cooper looked

The size of clouds can vary under the influence of a global 'electrical heartbeat' in the atmosphere, University of Reading researchers have claimed. They looked

The NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft beamed back images that scientists have used to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the surface

Apparently, when European ships first arrived in the Falkland Islands around 300 years ago there was just one mammal species living there - the so

More evidence for historical episodes of cosmic airbursts and rocks out of space comes from the Song of Ullikummi - see http://cosmictusk.com/song-of-ullikummi-grondine-unpacks-broze-age-myth-... George Howard begins

Lots of the white stuff in the air this weekend - Europe takes another cold snap in its stride but climate change disciples are adamant

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/ismael-bullialdus-finder-but-not keeper-of-the-inverse-square-law-of-gravitation/ ... a post under the heading of geomagnetism, gravity, solar physics and solar dynamics. Lots of science history. See also HH Ricker

Every now and again Tall Bloke's Work Shop posts a piece to set the commenters tapping at their keyboards and their brains go into overdrive,

Armagh Observatory has an image of Comet 2011 44 (Pan-STARRS), a bright comet that will be visible in the northern hemisphere this week - see

A year or so back a local archaeologist reinvestigated a Roman villa at Yewdon, near Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, after coming across several dozen infant remains in