In the News

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/oral-traditions-and-... ... Aborigines and traditions. It seems some of these traditions allude to volcanic eruptions and meteors - and some of them may date

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/ghost-of-mysterious-... ... Another ghost population indicated by genetics. This time it is in Africa - and concerns the ancestors of West African Bantu (or

At https://phys.org/news/2020-02-galactic-cosmic-rays-affect-titan.html ... the Atacama Telescope Array in Chile has been looking at Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. They found a chemical footprint in

At www.miragenews.com/5200-year-old-cereal-grains-from-eastern-altai-mounta... ... cereal grains dating back 5200 years ago (3200BC) have been discovered in the eastern Altai mountains (on the China side). The Altai

Time for a spot of geology. At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/twist-in-the-story-o... ... an emerging mainstream consensus view suggests gases, and in particular carbon gases, released by the Siberian

At http://lyme-online.co.uk/news/phoenician-ship-completes-atlantic-voyage/ ... the lyme online refers to Lyme Regis and Uplyme in Dorset (for overseas readers) and is situated on the Jurassic coastline. The

This comes courtesy of Anne Marie de Grazia. I haven't noticed it on mainstream but it was published in the journal Science so it must

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