In the News

At https://phys.org/news/2019-07-asteroid-earth.html ... Hat tip to William. An asteroid buzzed the earth and was barely noticed. It was 100m across and passed just 70,000 km

Sent in by Robert. Researchers have used scanning technology to make sense of a mysterious subterranean structure - and it may be the oldest church

At https://phys.org/news/2019-07-einstein-relativity-theory.html ... we seem to have two camps on Einstein and Relativity. The bigger group of scientists actively do research in order to sustain

A new web site dedicated to rock art (including European cave art) is at www.1902committee.com

In World Current Archaeology 96 (August 2019) (www.world-archaeology.com) we have a two page piece on the latest Neanderthal finds and mention is made of a

At https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/tfg-sns071219.php ... a strange looking dinosaur but apparently a fairly common herbivore. It has a nose suitable for shovelling that resembles that of an

As canny readers will have observed from images of the previous post on the Greek pyramid in the Aegean Sea there was certainly no pyramid

At https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/ru-pff071519.php ... apparently, there is no way to prove that a three dimensional 'quantum spin liquid' exists. Physicists have come up with another way

One for the birds. At https://phys.org/news/2019-07-bottomonium-particles-dont.html ... a few millionths of a second after Big Bang the universe was so dense and hot that quarks

At https://phys.org/news/2019-07-fast-radio-field-astronomy.html ... we have mysterious radio bursts - first discovered in 2007. Since then 100 or so have been announced - fast and bright

At https://phys.org/news/2019-07-southeast-asia-crowded-archaic-human.html ... SE Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before modern humans turned up - going back 50,000+ years ago. This is

This story is at Anne-Marie de Grazia's web site - go to https://www.q-mag.org/tiny-islet-close-to-naxos-reveals-4600y-old-sanctu... ... an uninhabited island 10km from Naxos in the Aegean has a

This is an interesting story at https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/07/grazing-animals-drov... ... many of the grains, including quinoa, amaranth, the millets, hemp, and buckwheat, have traits that indicate they

A completely preserved lily was found in calcareous sediments of a former lake in NE Brazil dating back, it is said, to 115,000 years ago

The big archaeology story for some people has been the discovery of what is claimed to be the Biblical settlement of Ziklag - go to

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/07/origin-of-life-insig... ... peptides, which are a chain of amino acids, are an essential element of all life on Earth. They form the fabric of

What is a modern human? Does it depend on the cranium - and the old idea skull shape is the primary arbitrator. At https://archaeologunewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/07/earliest-known-homo-... ...

At https://phys.org/news/2019-07-japan-hayabasa2-probe-touchdown-asteroid.html .... and https://phys.org/news/2019-07-japan-asteroid-probe-hayabasa2-touchdown.html ... the Japanese Hayabasa 2 space probe made a 'perfect' touchdown on asteroid Ryugu and has collected samples from beneath

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/07/island-cores-unravel... ... the temple culture on Malta began nearly 6000 years ago (roughly 4000BC). This includes the famous Ggantija temple complex - which endured

At https://phys.org/news/2019-07-ancient-saharan-seaway-earth-climate.html ... in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (summer of 2019) we have a paper based on an accumulation of