In the News

Here, the idea of language evolution is said to perhaps be a means to plotting prehistoric migrations of people. In this instance, the theory is

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/precursor-of-europe... .... fossil rhinoceros found in Vietnam, and dating way back, seem to bear similarities to rhinos once extent in Europe. This suggests SE

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/chemical-ghosts-of-... ... focuses on the research of Mary Schweitzer who came out with the idea organic molecules can be preserved for millions of years,

At http://phys.org.print313920371.html ... we all know what the consensus view is on cosmic background radiation in the afterglow of Big Bang - but here we

The key word here is 'in' the Earth - or underground. At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/rare-mineral-points... ... which came about after the discovery of a water rich gem

William Thompson has now had his catastrophist list posted by George Howard - go to http://cosmictusk.com/a-comprehensive-modern-catastrophist-bibliography/ ... which is good news for William Thompson and

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120426135008.htm ... biologists have discovered new mechanisms that control how proteins are expressed in different regions of embryos which seem to shed new light

The Online journal Nature Geoscience reports on the discovery of the mineral zircon at Jack Hill, 800km from Perth in Australia. The grains of zircon

A sizeable sun spot is attracting the attention of astronomers - go to http://spaceweather.com March 11th (scroll down to the page of that date). It

Jan Harding, 'Cult, Religion, and Pilgrimage: archaeological investigations of the Neolithic and Bronze Age monument complex at Thornborough, North Yorkshire' CBA Research Report 174 (2013)

At http://phys.org/print312566680.html ... evidence of mass strandings of marine animals crop up every now and then in the fossil record. A recent example, posted here

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/astronomy-and-lands... ... a monastery at Petra in Jordan is aligned to the winter Sun, which illuminates the position of a deity. At that same

This is an interesting observation by Peter Mungo Jupp at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/03/05/the-jurassic-coast-a-transmutation-e... ... as in the uniformitarian model limestone is formed slowly, over long periods of

First of all, a bit of a wake-up call, and the power of the Sun  - see http://spaceweather.com March 9th At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/08/the-group-the-right-climate-stuff-... ... which is

At http://spaceweather.com ... on March 3rd, had a piece on aurora, sparked by a prominent earth facing sun spot. Aurora are usually green, and sometimes

We have had the healing properties of the blue stones and now we have the rocks that ring like bells. Paul Devereux, in an article

At http://westerndigs.org/epic-fire-marked-beginning-of-the-end-for-ancient... ... there is a fascinating story that the mounds (ancient earthen pyramids) and plazas of a typical Meso-american town/city ritual layout, at what

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/03/milky-ways-red-dwarf-stars-a-hotsp... ... and http://phys.org/print313126310.html ... a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, by astronomers from the University of Hertfordshire,

At http://phys.org/print312636171.html ... a team at University of Cambridge has demonstrated that the event around 2300BC involved a movement of the summer monsoon rains which

At www.spaceweather.com for March 3rd (2014) there is some nice information on the recent aurora that could be seen as far south as the Channel