At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/archaeologist-found-atlantis-spain/ … another contender for Atlantis. Archaeologist and film maker Michael Donnellan has reignited the Atlantis controversy. He proposes it existed a few miles off the coast of Cadiz in Spain – just outside the Straits of Gibraltar.
His findings were unveiled at this year’s Cosmic Summit, hosted by George Howard. See https://cosmictusk.com … Donnellan used sonar and LiDAR technology to survey the sea floor and revealed a long linear structure rising 20 feet off the sea bed. Not much else to say about that.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ochre-discovery-south-african-cave.html … we have something altogether more important. Ochre in prehistoric archaeology is always thought to have a symbolic meaning – and the colours red and yellow, used liberally to adorn corpses, for example, or used on cave walls. It seems ochre wasn’t just used as a pigment. At the Blombos cave people used ochre as a specialist tool for stone tool making during the Middle Stone Age. This discovery will change how archaeologists, in the future, perceive finds of ochre in excavations. It was used not just in a symbolical manner but in a practical way also. The ochre pieces found at Blombos seem to date between 90,000 and 70,000 years ago. They were inteegral to the knapping process – used to retouch lithic surfaces.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-07-rare-wooden-tools-stone-age.html … ancient wooden tools have been found at a site in SW China. They go back 300,000 years, it is estimated. They were found together with animal and plant fossils, as well as stone implements. Wood generally crumbles and disappears quite quickly. On accasion it is buried in unusual circumstances. Or it can be vitrified – turned to stone. I have a large piece of wood dating from the dinosaur era – found in a quarry. The wooden tools don’t seem to have been vitrified – so it is preserved in a special manner, together with the fossils. They were excavated out of a heavy clay deposit – formed presumably by water. Clay is the leftovers of a watery torrent. It was supposed to exist on the shoreline of an ancient lake, we are told. Wooden tools are what are missing from the archaeology of the stone age – and exist in rare circumstance. The emphasis, therefore, has always been on stone tools.
At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/archaeologists-ancient-gum-found-sweden/ … a piece of birch bark ressin, used as an adhesive in wooden tool production, seems to have had a secondary role.Chewing gum.