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Ancient Steppe civilisation
3 October 2010 > ArchaeologyThe Daily Mail and the Sunday Times and various other papers have printed a story about the discovery of swastikas and Aryans with the implication,

Ptolemy's Germania
3 October 2010 > ArchaeologySpiegel Online at www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,518,720513,00.html says researchers have cracked Ptolemy's map of Germania and that settlements existed at a surprising number of towns some 2000 years

... and even more on the YD boundary event debate
2 October 2010 > ArchaeologyThe next day, October 2nd, George Howard posted the Holliday and Meltzer paper at http://cosmictusk.com fully and completely, including an extensive discussion in which a

Sprites on a video clip
2 October 2010 > ElectromagnetismAt NASA's Space Weather.com (see link at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/02/watching-lightning-jets-hit-the-atmosphere/ ) there is a video clip of huge lightning discharges that are striking the ionosphere from thunderstorms below. It

Lascaux constellations
2 October 2010 > AnthropologyBBC News 'online science editor' Dr David Whitehouse, in 2000, reported on the Ice Age prehistoric map of the night sky on the walls of Lascaux, as

More on archaeology and the younger Dryas boundary event
2 October 2010 > ArchaeologyThe University of Arizona at http://uanews.org/node/34499 has issued a news report on the 'cold water on the comet hypothesis' paper. They begin by saying the
Early Palaeo-Indian movements
2 October 2010 > ArchaeologyThe Wall Street Journal, of all things, has this story at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704644404575482342261278092.html ... in the early Holocene (or even during the Younger Dryas) humans migrated

Index of Postings in September 2010
1 October 2010 > DatingSeptember 2010. August 31st ... Other Worlds August 31st ... Nasca Lines ... and water. August 31st ... YD event update August 31st ... K/T

The Heoliosphere
1 October 2010 > AstronomyThis is a story that has popped up in a variety of media sources and on the blogosphere - including Science Daily. This version of

A Bahamas treasure-chest found in a hole ... a series of holes.
1 October 2010 > ArchaeologyThe holes concerned were formerly an Ice Age limestone cave system - much like the Yorkshire holes that cavers like to explore on rope and

Big Stone Axes for chopping down trees
1 October 2010 > ArchaeologyAt www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/63888/description/Ancient_New_Guinea/ ... it seems that people in what is now New Guinea nearly 50,000 years ago fashioned stone tools known as 'waisted axes' which

The Eemian again - same article, different take
1 October 2010 > Climate changeAt http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/01/ there is a post with the title '2 Degrees' - the amount our Canute like EU and US leaders think they are able

The God King Scenario
1 October 2010 > MythologyAt www.gks.uk.com Gary Gilligan has the second book of his series, the God King Scenario, available - with a link to Amazon. There is a

A step closer to the Big Bang? and creating a black hole in the laboratory
30 September 2010 > PhysicsAt www.physorg.com/print204957530.html an analysis of what has been happening at the Large Hadron Collider in the last couple of months has been submitted to the

The names of the Pharaohs - titles and epithets
30 September 2010 > Ancient historySIS member Gary Gilligan sent this link in - www.gks.uk.com/gks18/ which might not be everyone's cup of tea but is worth taking a look at. I

Early Americans
30 September 2010 > ArchaeologyThe BBC Horizon television series (www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/columbus.html ) on the 24th November of 2004 asked - who were the first people in North America? Where did they

No Clovis catastrophe - archaeologists say?
30 September 2010 > ArchaeologyAt 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 > ArchaeologyAt 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 > ArchaeologyAn 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 > DatingA conference on archaeoastronomy at Tartu in Estonia in 2002 had a paper by Goran Henriksson on the 'absolute chronology' of the ancient near east