In the News

At http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/11/mysterious-radiation-spike-could-ha... ... Ananya Bhattacharya reports, the mysterious spike in atmospheric C14 levels in 774/5AD may be a sign that the Sun is capable of

Returning to the recently published book by Mike Parker-Pearson, leading archaeologist of the Riverside Project - see earlier posts - we may note a specific

Funny thing, I was reading some Electric Universe stuff the other day and how they reckoned the planets formed, and here we are, at http://phys.org/print273315818.html

An interesting little bit on how the Maya might have cooked food following the discovery of lots of small fired clay balls - see http://news.discovery.com/history/maya-clay-balls-121129.html

Euan Mackie is a founder member of the SIS and helped organise the 1978 SIS Glasgow Conference, 'Testing Ages in Chaos'. He was also a

There were some interesting buildings found near Woodhenge, situated on high ground overlooking the river Avon as it arched and twisted below. They appear to

A very testy post at http://platetectonicsbiglie.blogspot.co.uk October 16th 2012, as mister grumpy ladles out angst in 'The Transform Belt: La baliverne incroyable', an otherwise interesting

There is an interesting post at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/wayne-jackson-new-identity-lin... - but see also http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/ferenc-miskolczi-short-intervi... as well as http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/the-carbon-flame-war-final-com...

The so called Richard III skeleton dug up in an ex-monastery may actually have been an abbot and not the former king. To keep up

The comes from Current World Archaeology 55 (november 2012 issue) see www.world-archaeology.com, and 'Redating Ice Age Art: were Neanderthals the first artists in Europe?' which

Tom Findlay, who has talked at various Thunderbolts conferences, has written a book, and at the moment you can download it for free - go

the media haven't seen fit to hardly mention the latest paper on the Clovis comet hypothesis, assuming it is a dud call, but apparently students

At http://phys.org/print272565880.html ... we learn that supercomputer simulation has revealed that dim supernovae are duds - like penny bangers that crack with a wimper instead

Mesolithic people are now on the radar of archaeologists. Sidelined for decades they are now so popular Amazon have a very long list of books

Len Saunders, see www.stonehenge-info.org, had some real hefty tomes on Stonehenge and excavations that took place in the 20th century, as well as some smaller

At www.newscientist.com/article/dn22509-pumpkin-pie-craters-on-mercury-are-... ... the link was forwarded by member Gary and the story is derived from data sent back by NASAs Messenger spacecraft. The weird

At www.archaiologia.gr/en/blog/2012/11/14/an-ancient-city-1200-100-bc-comes... ... a chance to test a revision of history might come to light as well. An investigation of a town known to have

At http://phys.org/print272208228.html ... we learn that in the Ordovician era, which is a very long time ago, the equator ran down the western side of

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/september-2012/article/stone-tipped... ... a Canadian team of anthropologists say they have found evidence humans were using stone tipped weapons to hunt as long ago as

High frequency flux transfer events have been detected near Mercury - is this evidence of the magnetic reconnection process? - see http://phys.org/print272050738.html ... the discovery