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In a similar vein, at http://archaeology.about.com/od/aterms/a/Aztlan.htm?nl=1 the semi mythical homeland of the Aztecs, known as Aztlan, has been sought far and wide with the most

An interesting article at http://thecostaricanews.com/ancient-cultures-and-prehistoric-in-casta-ri... the Costa Rica News reports on some archaeological discoveries in their country, on the slopes of volcanoes - presumably being

The Daily Mail - see www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385290/North-America-populated-70-peop... claims that new genetic research suggests only about 70 humans crossed the Bering Strait at the end of the

For example, at http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/april-2011/article/caves-in-spain-y... there is a fascinating story about a Spanish cave that at some point during the Pleistocene became filled with soil, rocks,

Tree rings, including bristlecone pines, have been used by climate scientists as a useful took, claiming they show past temperatures. Mike Baillie, a dendrochronologist begs

Doomsaying is a noteable feature of the medical world - report after report telling us for instance that cholesterol was a bad thing as it

Alternative sky serpents include enhanced aurorae (as advocated by Rens van der Sliujs on www.mythopedia.com ) or comets (Clube and Napier used this idea in

At www.gks.uk.com/Apophis-Apep-Serpent/ there are some new images. Scroll down to near the bottom and you will see photographs of the Jet Stream overhead from a

This is a bit of a fanciful story but is based on a series of hard facts - interspersed with some speculation. For starters the

At www.themeaningofvedas.com is a web site set up by Ravindra Godbole after he wrote a book with the same name. This is excellent and falls

NASA (see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-135?cid=release_2011-135 ) has issued a news release on Comet Elenin - and its progress from the outer reaches of space on its journey

At www.physorg.com/print223562554.html is a story derived from Universe Today, on cosmic scale magnetic fields     It notes that astronomers tend to button up when

An article in the New York Times (see www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04/language.html ) reports on research into Japanese language origins, tracing it the arrival of wet rice farmer

Katherine Cagen (Harvard) and Dallas Abbot (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York) 'Evidence for a tsunami generated by an impact event in the New

This is the title of an article at http://popular-archaeology.com/issue-printer/april-2011 .... looking for the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities of the Plain that

The New York Times (see www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/science/26qna.html?_r=1=science 'As the World Turns' asks, do shifts of the earth's axis produced by earthquakes alter world weather? - presumably

At www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2011/04/did-peking-man-wield-spear-new-re... there is a posting on Peking Man, dated by a new methodology some 700,000 years ago and known from the cave system at

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110428143155.htm ... biologists have found that electrical oscillations in the brain are more important than they imagined as they play a role in organising

Recent DNA tests on the mummies of Tutankhamon and his close relatives came up with the odd, if not  too likely finding that they had

Over at http://wattsupwiththat.com on April 29th we learn that some AGW doomsayers have said the devastating Alabama tornadoes are a result of 'C02 pollution' rather