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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

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...