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Out of Africa
25 February 2010 Anthropologywww.physorg.com id186064617 February 22nd ... a special issue of Current Biology is devoted to human beginnings and how genetic evidence, along with archaeological and linguistic
Palaeolithic Writing Systems - or a message from the Pleistocene
25 February 2010 AnthropologyNew Scientist February 17th had an article on Chauvet Cave and it's Palaeolithic art (southern France). The most famous of the paintings is the group
Dark Comets
25 February 2010 AstronomySee http://cosmictusk.com/nasa-mentions-dark-and-dead-comets-for-the-first-time-wise (or simply go to the menu on side bar of the web site) ... George Howard wonders if NASAs WISE mission which is
Ape Folk
23 February 2010 EvolutionThe Guardian and The Observer, soulmates in green politics, have a simlar choice of story regarding evolution of humanity. See online version at www.guardian.co.uk 21st
Pyramids
23 February 2010 Ancient historyhttp://www.egypttoday.com (article id=8812) ... over the last 30 years Egyptian archaeologists hav e been able to use modern technology to clear up outstanding conumdrums and
Sunlight and Holes in Tombs and Monuments
23 February 2010 Archaeologywww.thenational.ae - The National (Arab Emirates) ... has a piece on the period before monotheistic religions took root - an era of different gods with
Potbelly Hill
23 February 2010 ArchaeologyNewsweek, February 19th have run an article on the enigmatic monument unearthed in SE Anatolia dating back to 9500BC - the very beginnings of the Holocene
Permafrost
23 February 2010 Climate changewww.physorg.com February 17th ... the southern limits of the permafrost zone, frozen ground, is now said to be 130km further north than it was 50
Supernova
23 February 2010 AstronomyScience News Febnruary 17th (see http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id56425 ) ... new X Ray findings appear to blow a hole in the leading model for the origin of stellar
Another Catastrophe
22 February 2010 GeologyScience Daily February 17th ... a Nature Geoscience paper on the Carbon Cycle before humans has found that 100 million years ago there were large
Golden Bough
22 February 2010 ArchaeologyDaily Telgraph February 18th (see online at www.telegraph.co.uk ) ... Italian archaeologists claim to have found a stone enclosure which once protected the legendary 'Golden Bough'
Further on Tutankhamun DNA
22 February 2010 Ancient historyhttp://pling.livejournal.com February 19th and http://news.discovery.com February 18th ... an overview of what has been found and what is the official position with some sceptical comments
Cosmic Tusk Update
22 February 2010 ArchaeologyFurther posts on the AGU Meeting. WC Mahaney et al, in Geomorphology 116: Issues 1-2, page 48-57, due out on March 15th 2010, says that a
Chiefio
19 February 2010 Climate changewww.climategate.com/czechgate-climate-scientists-dump-worlds-second-oldest-record.html John O'Sullivan says a sceptic blogger known as Chiefio - who is in fact computer specialist EM Smith (see earlier posts) claims the Global Historical
Ghana, Carthage, and Tutankhamun
19 February 2010 ArchaeologyBBC News February 17th ... archaeologists have unearthed dozens of clay figures in Ghana that are thought to shed some light on pre-Islamic society (80
Lake Baikal
19 February 2010 GeologyDaily Galaxy February 17th (www.dailygalaxy.com ) ... Lake Baikal is the oldest, the largest and the deepest lake on the planet. It's reckoned to be
The Vancouver Sun and archaeology stories
17 February 2010 ArchaeologyTwo stories from the Vancouver Sun (see www.vancouversun.com and click on archaeology stories). On December 29th 2009 it was revealed that a study has found
Ice Age Anomalies
17 February 2010 Climate changeScience News February 11th ... coastal caves on the Ballearic Islands just off the coast of Spain (including Majorca) have produced some very surprising evidence
Corals in the Andaman Sea
17 February 2010 Climate changewww.physorg.com February 15th ... corals in the warm waters of the Andaman Sea in the NE part of the Indian Ocean have upset AGW alarmism
Medieval High Life
17 February 2010 Ancient historyIrish Times at www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0216/1224264553851_pf.html February 16th ... archaeologists in Kilkenny have discovered evidence of medieval abbots living the high life - the remains of roast