In the News

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/ancient-figures-re... ... Ghana had gold and slaves. It therefore became a magnet and attracted merchants from the other side of the Sahara. Whether this

At https://phys.org/print404473128.html ... the subject is cooking plant material in pots. Cooking leaves behind a residue that modern science can translate into what was being

This story is crawling all over the Internet this week and see http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2017/article/archaeologists-... ... which is a bit of a non story as all they

Carl Sagan didn't always get an enthusiastic hearing in Velikovskian circles as he was prepared to publicly criticise some of his ideas. However, he didn't

Creation Science has a bright future according to Dr Wile - go to http://blog.drwile.com?p=15572 ... and the link concerns a recent panel event where a

Worlds in Collision is becoming quite a popular theme in modelling circles. Gary sent in the links below. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4149746/Early-Earth-scarred-mass... ... a massive bombardment event

At https://phys.org/print404412354.html ... apparently the Pueblo people of the American SW used geometry in the design of their pueblos. Not only that they used a

Some upside down thinking at Scientific American - the result of a CAGW driven editorial agenda. Why is China dominating the global manufacture of solar

In the same issue of World Current Archaeology 81 we learn that at the Warrutyi rock shelter 55km north of Adelaide, in the Flinders Ranges,

This link was sent in by a member of SIS - http://crev.info/2017/01/earths-magnetic-field-3/ .... which concerns a New Scientist piece by Marcus Woo on the magnetic

In World Current Archaeology 81 (February 2017) (https://www.world-archaeology.com ), the News section, there is half a page on smallpox - when did the virus reach

Asteroids might be camouflaged, we are told. I can't think they mean anything like tieing pieces of plastic to nets in order to camouflage tents,

Attempts to explain dark energy persist. At https://phys.org/print404102809.html ... 'violations of energy convection in the early universe may explain dark energy' we are told. You

Although there are plenty of examples of vitrified hill forts on the continent this offering is concerned solely with Scotland. They have periodically been of

I suppose this should come under biology but it is also interesting in the way science works and how it is influenced by cultural bias.

   At http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0847-icebreakers-make-histor... ... which is of course a giggle at the CAGW crowd that have been gloating about warm Arctic seas and melting ice

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/01/18/drought-to-deluge/ ... which was sent in by William Thompson. Stephen Smith explains that the discovery of solar wind erupting from the sun at around

   ... the scablands.   Have a look at this web site, www.hugefloods.com/ ...      and see www.youtube.com/watch?=wJo8m4oKc6k and https://www.youtube.com/watch?=Z1jTBSNHKiY (you will have to probably key

Emmet Sweeney has a new web site dedicated to his chronology revision which expands on his Ages in Alignment theory - go to www.emmetsweeney.org/ Another

In a recent screening of Robin Hood on TV (an old film from back in the 1950s or 1960s) they had a podgy Friar Tuck