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The New Chronology Yahoo site has some emails circulating on Tell el Hammam,  a massive ancient city in the famous plain near the Dead Sea.

Looking at a well made stone axe one can appreciate the work and time involved in its construction - even a well made flint projectile

Andrew Neil's interview of Energy and Climate Secretary, Ed Davey, on July 14th, provoked a predictable backlash by outraged CAGW elements - accusing him of

This is a bit of a slapstick posting by Tim Cullen at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/etch-a-sketch-ice-sheets/ ... but sometimes funny haha can be close to the knuckle. He

The BBC tonight have been telling us that thunderstorms are on the way and the jet stream is about to revert. At Piers Corbyn's web

At http://phys.org/print293169366.html ... Europe's first farmers, some 8000 years ago, used manure on their fields. It has always been assumed manure was not used until

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-226&cid=release_2013=226 ... there is a report on two papers concerning the atmosphere of Mars as collated by NASAs Curiosity Rover - taking samples and

At www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/one-europes-oldest-decorative-wood... ... informs us that archaeologists have recovered a decorative wood carving dating to 6000 years ago - on a hilside in the Valleys

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/the-inflating-earth-sea-level/ ... Tim Cullen takes a look at sea levels in the context of the Inflating Earth hypothesis. What he says is interesting to

At http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/stone-age-and-ancient-tu... ... which confirms people in northern Japan were in active contact with Korea, especially 20,000 years ago when the two lands were far

This is Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Luning, 'Die Kalte Sonne' (the cold Sun). It has now been published in English under the title 'The Neglected

At www.livescience.com/37977-underwater-cypress-forest-discovered.html ...the discovery of a primeval underwater forest off Alabama, buried under ocean sediments that were disturbed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, raises some

The fascination with finding water on Mars is continuing apace at a fair rate of knots. At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/07/caltech-researchers-discover-evide... ... Mike Lamb of Caltech and co-author

At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Did_Neandertals_have_language.asp ... we learn that research seems to suggest Neanderthals were very similar to modern humans, in a variety of ways. The idea Neanderthals,

The biggest story this week, in archaeology, is the discovery of the world's oldest lunar calendar in an Aberdeenshire field - in the grounds of

Excellent post by Hossein Turner at http://hozturner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-great-comet.html ... a fresh insight into the Great Comets of the Ancient World, inspired no doubt by comet ISON

In a follow up post on July 3rd Tim Cullen expands further on the geological jigsaw puzzle associated with chalk formation - and includes on

It's a fact that chalk formed extensive beds in the Cretaceous but nowhere in the world is there evidence of chalk being formed today. Limestone,

A brilliant post at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/chronology-ice-cores/ ... which targets consensus geochronology. Anyone even faintly having recourse to the dating of rock strata will have a bit

An article in Science concerns mysterious burst of radio waves from billions of light years away - which has caused some speculation (see http://phys.org/print292164806.html The