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Current Archaeology 239 February 2010
9 February 2010 > ArchaeologySeveral items are worth repeating to the wider world. The Clovis culture people are blamed for the extinction of mammoths in North America according to
Extra-terrestrial geology from several sources
9 February 2010 > Geologyhttp://atlas-conferences.com/c/a/j/i/26.htm claims that cosmic activity has been detected in raised bogs in NW Europe and in Siberia (at Tunguska). These traces appear to correspond to episodes
Punt
9 February 2010 > ArchaeologyThe Boston Globe (online version), January 11th ... the discovery publicised a couple of years ago of the find in a cave at the mouth of the Wadi Gawasis
Big Heads
9 February 2010 > Evolutionhttp://discovermagazine.com December 28th 2009 ... the cranial capacity of Boskop skulls found in South Africa in the early 20th century are the subject of this article
Semi-conductors
9 February 2010 > Physicswww.phyorg.com February 5th ... research on semi-conductors caught in the act electrons forming complex patterns, resembling those seen in turbulent fluids. This is said to
Stonehenge Hedge
9 February 2010 > ArchaeologyThe Guardian February 4th ... Stonehenge is revealing more secrets. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of the Great Stonehenge Hedge. Apparently, around 2000BC (a date that
Smoke and Fire
9 February 2010 > BiologyScience Daily ... a paper in Journal of Natural Products claims fire and smoke play a significant role in the rebirth and regeneration of forest
Biological Enigmas
4 February 2010 > BiologyScience Daily, November 20th 2009 ... palaeobiological researchers have found evidence that during mass extinction events that punctuate the history of life, open ocean marine
Evolutionary Enigmas
4 February 2010 > EvolutionRancho La Brea tar pits ... these are found in the heart of Los Angeles and are a rich source of fossils - over 565
Physics and Cosmology
4 February 2010 > Physicswww.physorg.com January 28th ... One goal of the Large Hadron Collider is to find the Higgs boson, the only particle in the standard model that
Catastrophic Scenarios (real or imagined)
4 February 2010 > CatastrophismScience Daily January 27th ... the Neanderthals are now said to have died out in Iberia 37,000 years ago, coinciding with dramatic changes in climate
Earth Science Stories
4 February 2010 > GeologyScience Daily, January 21st ... the Kimmeridge Clay deposit is a well known geological formation that runs across middle England - only surfacing at a
Space Anomalies
4 February 2010 > ElectromagnetismScience Daily January 20th ... MIT professor Richard Binzel has examined what influence Earth might have on asteroids - which appear to be substantial. He
Chronological Matters
4 February 2010 > Ancient historyBiblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines and Early History, Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature: 2009 ... an in-depth study of
Anthropology
4 February 2010 > AnthropologyThe Guardian January 22nd ... Israel is to fund a genetic study to determine if there is a link between the lost tribes of Israel
Astronomy and Space
4 February 2010 > AstronomyUniversity of Buffalo News June 11th 2002 ... this is interesting though an old post. Research has squeezed evidence out of ice cores to show
Douglas Keenan
4 February 2010 > Climate changewww.informath.org ... the on-running web site of Dougls Keenan has some interesting articles including one on C14 dating and tree rings. Douglas Keenan has also
Silbury Hill, and other archaeological news
4 February 2010 > ArchaeologyGazette and Herald, February 2nd ... letters that were archived over 200 years ago seem to suggest Silbury Hill may originally have been constructed around
Younger Dryas Event Update (January 2009)
31 January 2010 > CatastrophismGeorge Howard, on his web site/ blog http://cosmictusk.com is reporting on the Fall Meeting of the AGU which included a session on the Younger Dryas
Hebrew Script
22 January 2010 > DatingScience Daily January 8th 2010 ... a researcher has decyphered a Hebrew inscription on a pottery sherd from the Elah Valley and dating to the