In the News

A wonderful post to catch the eye at http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/owl-plaques-eye-... ... here we have some repeating motifs that look suspiciously like plasma pinch phenomena as illustrated

At www.minoanatlantis.com/Minoan_Spain.php ... the authors are suggesting Iberia was colonised by Early Minoans - by which I suppose they mean by people from the Aegean

This is a really interesting story - and more will follow, no doubt, as research continues. How much is genuine geology and how much is

Proof that tartans are not a modern myth, BBC News at www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20579219 ... comes from a statue of the emperor Caracalla discovered in the Moroccan

This comes from an unusual site that is linked to George Howard's Cosmic Tusk site and appears to be into Atlantis and various forms of

There were Green inspired planetary scares long before the CAGW meme kicked in, fanned by doomsayers that appear to have taken on the mantle formerly

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/live-volcanoes-detected-on-venus-n... ... a bit of the old Velikovsky predictions here, and the idea Venus is a young planet and is still cooling down. Gary

At www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00715.html ... the first human settlers to arrive on Tonga, a South Sea island group in the Pacific, is now set between 840 and

This story has a direct correlation with the previous one as it provides the means for human migration into North America quite a bit earlier

This story pops up at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121130151606.htm ... and at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/11/native-americans-and-... (and various other sites). To a certain extent this amounts to a recycling of old

This is an important one, I think, but not necessarily the last word on the subject. At www.livescience.com/25157-stonehenge-megaliths-timeline-enigma.html ... Robert Ixer and Timothy Darvill are

At www.sci-news.com/othersciences/paleoclimatology/article00417.html ... not so long ago, just a mere 15 to 20 million years ago, temperatures were some eleven degrees celsius warmer than today.

At www.sci-news.com/othersciences/paleoclimatology/article00384.html ... researchers in Pennsylvania and South Carolina, and now as far away as Syria, are said to have found a thin layer of

Bringing the Canterbury Tales up to date, with a touch of humour and a smidgeon of Chaucer, Dr Tim Ball compares carbon credits to church

It seems a land bridge may have existed between Italy and two small islands off the west coast of Sicily until well into the Holocene,

This is the black hole that has grown legs and has even got into the vocabulary of comedians, propping up a succession of gags -

Is that possible? Mercury is so close to the Sun - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-378&cid=release_2012-378  It seems Mercury has a low tilt and craters near the poles

This story is at http://phys.org/print273420123.html ... and is largely based around a new dating process associated with a phosphate mineral known as apatite. The research

Mexico's Yucatan peninsular has many caves and cenotes, an estimated 10,000 of them. People lived in the caves during the Ice Age, and their remains,

At http://phys.org/print273396491.html ... we are back at the C14 boundary for dating objects, around 35 to 40 thousand years ago. This boundary, it seems, may