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Biblical Numbers have exercised the minds of numerous scholars over the years but we are little wiser after all that ink has been spent. The

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/mattarahkka-mother-ear... ... we have a lovely piece, several pages of printout, on Sami rock art, by Inga-Marie Mulk, an archaeologist from northern Sweden. It

NASA has a story about Jupiter - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-095&cid=release_2013-095 There is a lovely image of a swirling atmosphere, with cloudless patches dotted near the equator.

A timely reminder that tree rings, ice cores, and speleotherms, which are all used to reconstruct climate in the past by geologists as much as

Tom Findlay has just had a book published, A Beginner's View of our Electric Universe, so he was directly asked a couple of pertinent questions

A rather strange story at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/failure-to-hunt-rabbits-part-of-... ... and concerns the absence of rabbits and similar small animals in the diet of Neanderthals. It seems a

At www.cracked.com/article_20206_5-shockingly-advanced-ancient-buildings-th... .... some intersting images of underground settlements in different parts of the world. Derinkuyu in Turkey, for example, discovered in the 1960s when

At www.gsbkerala.com/saraswati.htm ... the lost river Saraswati is the the main theme and begins by saying climate change and geotectonic movements (earth movements) led to

Continuing the theme of desertification in recent posts see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120528154943.htm ... we have climate change directly involved in the collapse of the Indus civilisation, around

This story is at http://phys.org/print282294394.html ... and concerns the discovery of a hidden network of rivers flowing beneath the Greenland ice sheet, potentiallly catastrophic as

This subject seems to have had a bit of a revival again. The red rain of Kerala was speculatively linked to a fireball (and meteorite)

The resonant orbit of the Russian meteor and the bigger piece of space rock prompted member William Thompson to send in some information on Patten

This is one of those funny stories that has caught on without any firm evidence to support it. Lots of blogs are bloviating on the

The solar flare of AD774/5 (sometimes AD776) is the subject Mike Baillie has earmarked for his 2013 AGM talk - but I'm sure it will

Yes, David Rohl has a blog. I didn't realise that and I expect not a lot of SIS people knew that either. In one blog

At www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,394464,polish-archaeologists-have-d... oldest-houses-in-africa.html .... which goes back an estimated 70,000 years (to be verified) according to the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology in Poznan, which

At http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/09/17253655-earth-gets-a-rush-o... ... the Russian meteor has been followed by a succession of near misses, it would seem, and not just those that broke in

At www.messagetoeagle.com/taklamakan.php#.UT8CC1arKdM ... we learn the Takla Makun desert in China, with its shifting sands, might be hiding some interesting archaeology. Sandwiched as it is

Due to conflicting results from C14 methodology scientists have used coral tools as a dating medium in order to find when exactly the Lapita culture

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/nasa-solar-wind-energy-source-... ... NASA think they might have found the origin of solar wind via the WIND spacecraft )see http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2013/03/08/splash_big.jpg). The source of the heating