In the News

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2013/genetic-link-shown-bet... ... a paper published in PLoS ONE, using DNA methodology, has shown a fairly stable population in Syria and the middle Euphrates valley

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/fishtrap-evokes-powerf... ... which is a bit of a soft soap kind of reporting, nothing like a bit of environmental emotionalising, but the subject itself

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2013/catastrophic-climate-c... ... this concerns what caused the abrupt end of the thriving civilisations of the LB age which were followed by a period of

Here is a story of consensus science to make you blush - but not if you are feeling a touch on the toady side -

Keeping to the wolfish theme at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/dogs-likely-origina... .... another theory on the origin of the domestic dog. In all likelihood European dogs did evolve from

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/science-on-trail-of... .... the folk tale of Little Red Riding Hood has a near global dispersal and may reflect ancient human migrations - or cultural

At www.spaceweather.com ... Comet ISON is getting brighter and brighter as we approach the end of November encounter with the Sun. Its tail now extends

At http://phys.org/print303641255.html ... it seems geologists might have a new way to look for gold in them thar' hills - find the crater and then

At http://phys.org/print303673640.html ... Jupiter's red spot, is a giant vortice that is supposed to lose energy by radiating heat and is suspended between two jet

At http://cosmo.nyu.edu/~rj486/files/RJansson_PhD_thesis.pdf ... the magnetic field of the Milky Way. Each star in the Milky Way has its own magnetic field - like our Sun.

At http://phys.org/print303571573.html ... latest update on plasma fusion - Chinese, American, French. Where are the British? Stuck up a windmill. How much are we really

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/methane-myopia-3-earth-science/ ... Tim Cullen takes aim again at the Earth Sciences and a Wikipedia entry that claims, 'palaeo-climatology research published in Current Biology suggests

Two more posts on Comet ISON - at http://phys.org/print303650046.html ... NASAs Messenger spacecraft, orbiting Mercury, has captured images of Comet ISON - and Comet Encke.

At http://notrickszone.com/2013/11/14/more-dissent-erupts-in-germany-free-d... ... it seems that Germany has its equivalent of Nigel Farage - and apparently not to be trifled with. The video is in

At www.newscientists.com/article/dn24492-ancient-mural-may-be-first-picture... (or http://tinyurl.com/njo4uww) ... in 1963 archaeologist James Melaart discovered a large mural on a wall of a house at Catalhuyuk (which was pieced

It seems the paper published a few days ago in Environmental Research Letters (see In the News 10th November) aimed at debunking the Svensmark theory

At www.uea.ac.uk/~jwmp/CAA2003.pdf (or http://tinyurl.com/pjs8vz3) we have a paper released by the University of East Anglia on a significant henge in Norwich. It is situated near

At http://spaceweather.com ... an outburst from Comet ISON. There is a sharp increase in the brightness and it is now on the threshold of naked

The previous post may have been angled to show people in the Middle Ages were irrational when it comes to comets, in comparison with the

At http://phys.org/print303391880.html ... this is about past observations of comets. For some reason the journalist that wrote the piece said, 'first observations' of comets were