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Interesting post at Pierre's web site - https://notrickszone.com/2020/02/10/scientists-oxygen-nitrogen-radiative... ... Earth's atmosphere is made up of 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen = 99%. In other words,

A University of Waikato (New Zealand) researcher, Fiona Petchey, has been helping archaeologists track the movements of Lapita people through the Pacific (the forerunners of

In New Scientist, 23rd November, 2019, we had 'Horses reigned supreme among Stone Age artists' which is something of a conumdrum (but you wouldn't think

Yes, this is really a picture of the Sun, as seen over the ocean near Rio de Janiero - see https://spaceweather.com (February 10th 2020) ....

Ancient skulls in a Mexican cave might reveal surprises about early Americans - go to www.sciencealert.com/ancient-skulls-in-a-mexican-cave-reveal-surprises-a... ....

Hopefully this will be the last word on whether Easter Islanders were responsible for their own demise. At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/researchers-revise-t... ... researchers revise the timing of

Big news this last week - mud wasp nests have been used to establish a date for certains types of Aboriginal rock art out in

An article submitted to The Lancet on February 3rd claims the coronavirus may have nothing to do with bats or snakes but may have arrived

At www.irishcentral.com/news/bronze-age-settlement-galway ... a recent Atlantic storm has uncovered a Bronze Age dwelling at Spiddal in Co Galway. It is a potential crannog - a

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-firewalkers-of-k... ... the Karoo Basin of southern Africa has massive deposits of ignaeous rocks, left behind by basalt flows dated Early Jurassic. It coincided

This concerns the origin of pottery in East Asia rather than pottery in other parts of the world - which may or may not have

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-curious-curiouser-meteorite-chunk-unexpect... ... a chunk of a meteorite seems to contain interstellar material which is said to have formed before the Sun came into being

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/siberian-neanderthal... .... a new study in PNAS reveals that Neanderthals trekked as far north as the Altai Mountains in Siberia, carrying with them a

At https://spaceweather.com (January 29th 2020) we have dunes in the sky, a form of aurora rippling through the northern skies. A paper published in the

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 turned the brains of one of its victims into glass, we are told - see https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/mount-vesuvius-blast... ... and

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/clays-in-antarctica-... ... change in the Antarctic from 35 million years ago is said to chronicle past climate change. That is the necessary nod of

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-riddle-heavenly.html ... Cosmic lightning is happening all around us we are told. Somewhere in the sky there is a pulse that flashes and extinguishes

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/3000-year-old-teeth-... ... 3000 year old teeth from skeletons buried in Vanuatu were analysed and microscopic traces of banana and other plants were found in

At https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/21/asia/budj-bim-australia-bushfire-intl... ... the recent bushfires in Victoria (2020) have revealed some interesting archaeology, a series of water channels created by Aborigines in order to

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-microbial-mayhem-chicxulub-crater.html ... it was microbial mayhem in the Chicxulub crater - according to a paper published in the journal Geology (https://doi.org/10.1130/G46799.1 ) and in