In the News

At http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140425-corona-spy-satell... ... US spy satellites data from the Cold War period has been released and it displays images that can be used by archaeologists

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/early-coptic-image-... ... at the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, a 6th century Coptic painting has turned up in what was thought to be a tomb

Here is a man to reckon with, one Henry Hoyle Howorth - go to http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/1892-an-appeal-to-common-sense/ ... and this one is a cracker (worth a read

A press release by the University of Washington has been taken up at www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/More_questions_than_answers_as_myste... ... where the issue of domestication of plants and animals is

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/fossil-fuels-puzzle/ ... the question is asked - where does fossil fuel come from? Is it abiotic (non-biological) in origin? The presence of methane on

At www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/10770480/Ancient-Rome-... ... we learn the Roman port of Ostia, on the Tiber and the port of call for all trade to Rome was much

For more information on the recent Rutland earthquake go to www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/10774635/Second-earthquake-strikes-Rutland.html and www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10652099/Earthquakes-in-Britain-a-histor... ... and we may note Rutland abuts the Charnwood Forest area of

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/miles-mathis-the-fourth-phase-... ... was provoked by Geral Pollack's book of the same name. The latter has produced in its wake a very hostile reception in

At http://cosmictusk.com/interesting-support-for-younger-dryas-boundary-ydb... ... you can read the abstract of an article with the title, 'Late Glacial Fire and Nitrogen dynamics at lacustrine sites in Alabama

At www.sciencenews.org/article/mountains-saturn-moon-may-have-come-from-space ... Yes, mountains made out of space debris - on a moon of Saturn (but what is good for the goose might also

At www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/anglesey-mysterious-artefact-d... ... the Neolithic in western Britain, or that part close to the Great Orme copper mines, has come up with evidence of copper

At www.sciencenews.org/article/la-brea-tar-pits-yield-exquisite-ice-age-bees ... the image below (at the same link) is of the pupae of a bee (comparing a real life version with the fossilised

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/03012014/article/the-first-great-hu... ... genetic studies, we are told, indicate Palaeolithic people grew in huge numbers between 80,000 and 60,000 years ago. Why this should have

Most ethanol produced uses high temperature fermentation to chemically convert corn, sugar cane, palm oil or any suitable plant material into liquid fuel. A new

That is the inference in a story at www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/04/young-galaxies-powered-by-massive-... .... and opens with the statement, all matter of fact, 'quasars- are young galaxies powered by

No - not a shindig in Wales but a reference to Cambrian fossils at www.livescience.com/44654-first-fossil-blood-vessel-arthropod.html .... where it has been found that creatures living 520

Speak of the devil. I mentioned Neanderthal DNA research two days ago and the very next day spied this story at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/new-method-confirms... ... Technical objections

For those interested in Ptolemy and the origins of astronomy, or just astrology, one might be interested in the post at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/astrology-the-aesthetic-and-th...

The original research has now reached the pages of New Scientist - go to www.newscientist.com/article/dn25372-volcanic-blasts-hint-that-mercury-i... ... although they aren't calling it a loose canon, or

At www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2014/140403_1.html ... a team led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities has discovered a giant