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Current Archaeology 239 February 2010

9 February 2010 > Archaeology
Several items are worth repeating to the wider world. The Clovis culture people are blamed for the extinction of mammoths in North America according to
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Extra-terrestrial geology from several sources

9 February 2010 > Geology
http://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
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Punt

9 February 2010 > Archaeology
The 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
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Big Heads

9 February 2010 > Evolution
http://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
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Semi-conductors

9 February 2010 > Physics
www.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
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Stonehenge Hedge

9 February 2010 > Archaeology
The Guardian February 4th ... Stonehenge is revealing more secrets. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of the Great Stonehenge Hedge. Apparently, around 2000BC (a date that
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Smoke and Fire

9 February 2010 > Biology
Science Daily ... a paper in Journal of Natural Products claims fire and smoke play a significant role in the rebirth and regeneration of forest
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Biological Enigmas

4 February 2010 > Biology
Science Daily, November 20th 2009 ... palaeobiological researchers have found evidence that during mass extinction events that punctuate the history of life, open ocean marine
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Evolutionary Enigmas

4 February 2010 > Evolution
Rancho La Brea tar pits ... these are found in the heart of Los Angeles and are a rich source of fossils - over 565
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Physics and Cosmology

4 February 2010 > Physics
www.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
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Catastrophic Scenarios (real or imagined)

4 February 2010 > Catastrophism
Science Daily January 27th ... the Neanderthals are now said to have died out in Iberia 37,000 years ago, coinciding with dramatic changes in climate
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Earth Science Stories

4 February 2010 > Geology
Science Daily, January 21st ... the Kimmeridge Clay deposit is a well known geological formation that runs across middle England - only surfacing at a
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Space Anomalies

4 February 2010 > Electromagnetism
Science Daily January 20th ... MIT professor Richard Binzel has examined what influence Earth might have on asteroids - which appear to be substantial. He
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Chronological Matters

4 February 2010 > Ancient history
Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines and Early History, Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature: 2009 ... an in-depth study of
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Anthropology

4 February 2010 > Anthropology
The Guardian January 22nd ... Israel is to fund a genetic study to determine if there is a link between the lost tribes of Israel
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Astronomy and Space

4 February 2010 > Astronomy
University of Buffalo News June 11th 2002 ... this is interesting though an old post. Research has squeezed evidence out of ice cores to show
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Douglas Keenan

4 February 2010 > Climate change
www.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
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Silbury Hill, and other archaeological news

4 February 2010 > Archaeology
Gazette and Herald, February 2nd ... letters that were archived over 200 years ago seem to suggest Silbury Hill may originally have been constructed around
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Younger Dryas Event Update (January 2009)

31 January 2010 > Catastrophism
George 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
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Hebrew Script

22 January 2010 > Dating
Science Daily January 8th 2010 ... a researcher has decyphered a Hebrew inscription on a pottery sherd from the Elah Valley and dating to the
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