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No Clovis catastrophe - archaeologists say?

30 September 2010 Archaeology
At www.physorg.com/print204991757.html (and variously at www.sciencedaily.com and http://geology.com ) at first reflection we seem to have another example of scientists rejecting a new theory without

Gypsies, skeletons in Crete, Stonehenge boy and a lost cairn on a bleak moor ... oh, and Kamchatka

29 September 2010 Archaeology
At www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/articel/ALerqM5gX5SVZzbhOKV we learn that Greek archaeologists have announced the discovery of a skeleton covered in gold foil in a grave on Mount Ida in

Journal of Cosmology

28 September 2010 Archaeology
An interesting web site is at http://journalofcosmology.com/AncientAstronomy102.html 'Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: The Role of Astronomy in Ancient culture' and as yet I have not

Dating and Chronology in the Middle East

28 September 2010 Dating
A conference on archaeoastronomy at Tartu in Estonia in 2002 had a paper by Goran Henriksson on the 'absolute chronology' of the ancient near east

Hazards from Space .... including a relook at the Tunguska event

28 September 2010 Catastrophism
At www.physorg.com/print204826766.html we learn that the Panoramic Survey Telescope has discovered an asteroid that will come within 4 million miles of the Earth in mid-October

Is our universe in the interior of a giant black hole?

28 September 2010 Physics
This is another post from Casey Kazan at www.dailygalaxy.com 27th Sept ... a paper available at arxiv.org/abs/1007.0587 'Cosmology in Torsion - an Alternative to Cosmic

The Magnetic Moon, Lightning on Earth and Venus, and the Ring of Saturn that was invisible until now

28 September 2010 Electromagnetism
Magnetised regions on the far side of the Moon have been found to deflect the solar wind, shielding the Moon's surface (presented last Friday, 24th

Mars and Venus

27 September 2010 Astronomy
At www.thunderbolts.info we have on Sept 24th 'More Martian Enigmas'  which concerns, among other things, those strange hematite spherules nicknamed blueberries by some wag at

Comets and the Bronze Age collapse

26 September 2010 Catastrophism
George Howard, at http://cosmictusk.com September 26th ... has posted an article by Bob Kobres that acknowledges it is based on an artilce published by SIS

Saturn, Venus, and the Sun

25 September 2010 Astronomy
At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-313&cid=release_2010-313 for a NASA story, images, and a video clip of Saturn's shimmering aurora over a two day period (www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov ) At

Egypt

25 September 2010 Archaeology
In a scientific article published in May 2010, The Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, an architect claims to have unlocked how the Egyptians constructed the

A Viking Mystery

25 September 2010 Archaeology
David Keys, in the Smithsonian magazine (see www.smithsonian.com Sept 24th), the October issue, has a report on the archaeology discovered beneath an Oxford College when

Fishing the Mesolithic way

25 September 2010 Archaeology
This story comes from the Irish Times Sept 23rd ... an archaeologist happened to be out walking and came across some weirs and dams constructed

Einstein and Gravity

25 September 2010 Physics
At http://calderup.wordpress.com Sept 24th ... there is a post on General Relativity and Einstein which is a favourite theme of Nigel Calder. In the current

Archaeological Chronology in eastern and central Europe

25 September 2010 Archaeology
See www.examiner.com/world-culture-in-national/archaeological-culture-and-prehistory/ ... this post, by Lolita Nikolova, is basically about prehistoric culture - and its spread. In this context, the route of the spread,

An older universe?

24 September 2010 Physics
At www.dailygalaxy.com September 20th Casey Kazan stirs the pot by asking, could the universe be older than cosmologists think? More powerful telescopes are upsetting the standard

Neanderthals killed off by volcanoes?

24 September 2010 Anthropology
At http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100922-volcanoes-eruption-neanderthals/  and as reported elsewhere, a paper in the October issue of Current Anthropology suggests that volcanic eruptions in the Caucasus and Italy coincided

Phobus

24 September 2010 Astronomy
At www.dailygalaxy.com September 22nd ... (see also www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11378762?print=true ) scientists claim to have found firm evidence that the biggest moon of Mars, Phobus, is made

A peculiar case of double think in archaeology

24 September 2010 Archaeology
The story is at http://heritage-key.com/blogs/owenjarus/did-uruk-soldiers-kill-their-own-people-5500/ so a certain element of scepticism might be advisable. Anyway, the story proceeds with excavations at a city in Syria,

Have they found something ... or not

24 September 2010 Physics
At www.physorg.com/print204290256.html ... the official position is that the Large Hadron Collider has found something - but they are a bit shy on saying what