Wed 28 Jul 2021
In The News
Welcome to our "In the News" page, featuring summaries of Internet news, relevant to Catastrophism and Ancient History.
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4 Jul 2021 Finland Snake This story came out last month but Phys.Org have updated it - see https://phys.org/news/2021-06-ancient-snake-finland.html ... The snake in question is made of wood and its head is carved quite deliciously, and the body encapsulates the slithering nature of the beast. It is just 53 cm in length and 2.5 cm thick. It is incredibly well preserved - and was found with other wooden items, seemingly after the drowning of a campsite of hunter-gatherers. It resembles an adder, we are told, or a grass snake. The latter is not venomous and can be handled, but is known to inhabit watery places. |
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4 Jul 2021 Plague in 3000BC A man buried in Latvia some 5000 years ago had an early form of Yersinia pestis [the plague] - see https://phys.org/news/2021-06-year-old-earliest-strain-plague.html ... and scientists are thinking this might be an early form of the disease which later mutated and became so deadly, being responsible for the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death in the 14th century AD. The report is therefore coloured by mainstream ideas on how diseases develop over a period of time. |
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4 Jul 2021 Mammoth Family Sent in by William - www.whitehorsestar.com/News/mammoth-skeletons-called-super-exciting ... placer miners in the Dawson gold fields regularly find the bones of Ice Age animals, including those of mammoths. It is rather rare for them to find them as a partial skeleton - and a whole mammoth would be very surprising. Mostly, animal bones are disarticulated, as one might expect if they had been buffeted around in a tidal surge [running up river valleys]. In May, placer miner Trey Charlie came across a partial skeleton. |
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4 Jul 2021 Mercury and Magnetism At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-mercury-big-iron-core-magnetism.html ... the prevailing theory that Mercury has a big iron core relative to its crust is under attack. The consensus theory is that much of Mercury's rocky mantle has been blown away due to collisions in the early solar system. They are always early of course - to keep them at arms length. It left a big, dense, metal core, and this was thought to explain its magnetism. |
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4 Jul 2021 Space Rock and Dinosaurs William also sent in the link www.yahoo.com/news/dinosaurs-may-already-going-extinct-214432199.html ... it begins by telling us a space rock struck earth 66 million years ago, dooming the dinosaurs. It then claims dinosaurs had already began to go extinct - before the impact. This presumably was prompted by a paper last year which said exactly the opposite - that dinosaurs thrived right up to the impact. We are told a period of global cooling dated at 76 million years ago may have prompted the decline. |
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4 Jul 2021 Allabogdanite Allabogdanite is associated with meteors - see https://phys.org/news/2021-06-mineral-previously-meteorites-dead-sea.html ... allabogdanite has been found in the Dead Sea region. This is an interesting observation as I immediately made a connection with the proposed Sodom meteor towards the end of the MB era. Previously, it was found in the Negev - in surface rocks. These are probably rocks that go back much farther than the Sodom meteor or even Mount Horeb of the Mose story, yet it is an interesting coincidence. |
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3 Jul 2021 Neanderthal Disappearance At www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/blog/2021/06/23/archaeology-mystery-fate-of-nea... .... Oxbow talks to Dr April Nowell, author of 'Growing Up in the Ice Age' on the subject of the extinction of the Neanderthals. She is described as Palaeolithic archaeologist - specialising in the study of stone age societies and people. She is faced by a question - what happened to the Neanderthals 40,000 years ago? She begins by pointing out the physical and behavioural similarities between Neanderthals and modern humans, which makes their disappearance all the more puzzling. |
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3 Jul 2021 Icelandia This story can be seen at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/07/02/icelandia-is-iceland-the-tip-... ... it seems a group of researchers think they may have identified a geological secret - a sunken continent hidden under Iceland and the surrounding ocean bed. Shades of Atlantis. How can this be as Plate Tectonics tells us that the Atlantic is spreading - from the Mid Ocean Ridge. Iceland sits atop that geological feature - hence the epic volcanism. The Atlantic, in mainstream consensus thinking, is expanding either side of the Mid Ocean Ridge. |
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27 Jun 2021 Dragon Man At https://phys.org/news/2021-06-dragon-fossil-neanderthals-closest-relativ... ... a near perfect fossilised human skull was found in the 1930s in Harbin City in the Heilongjong province of China. It belongs to Homo long - the dragon man. Three papers published this June concern the fossil cranium. Why now? It had almost square eye sockets, thick brow ridges, a wide mouth, and very large teeth - all the better for chomping on unprocessed food. It is typically similar to other archaic humans so not really a surprise. |
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27 Jun 2021 Comet Strikes At https://phys.org/news/2021-06-ancient-civilization-shift.html .... is another one in the long line of Younger Dryas to and fro. We are told a cluster of comet fragments nearly 13,000 years ago may have shaped the origins of human civilisation. It seems to coincide with how human societies went on to organise themselves - the boundary between hunter-gatherers and the Neolithic. The origins of the Neolithic are lost - but the process occurred in more than one place. |