In the News

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id//333948/description/Woolly_rhinos_ca... ... is a report on a paper published in Science (Sept 2nd) and is all about the discovery of a new cache of

This story is at www.physorg.com/print157735263.html - giant cats roamed Europe and North America as recently as the warm period between the end of the Ice

Simon Haslett of the University of Wales, Newport, in coalition with Ted Bryant (see story a few days ago on 1014AD tsunami) had there research

The Guardian (see www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/01/iron-age-hill-fort-excavation/ ) has a report on excavations at the large Iron Age hill fort of Ham Hill in Somerset - some 80

This story can be found at an interesting site with a nice name, http://averyremoteperiodindeed.blogspot.com/2011/08/170000-year-old-huma...  is all about a human skull, described by one of the

In response to Gary Gilligan's ideas about flint (see his web site, www.gks.uk.com) and the significance of the study at http://swansea.academia.edu/CarolynGravesBrown/Papers/847861/The_Biologi... ... a rather interesting

This story comes from www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/08/2011/obsidian-artifacts-point... and it seems that mariners may have been sailing the Mediterranean before the end of the Pleistocene - according to

At Daily News and Analysis India - see www.dnaindia.com/print710.php?cid=1579550, there is a report of the re-discovery of the remains of a Buddhist stupa and monastery

At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Not_so_fast_--_researchers_find_that... is a report on s study published in PNAS which uses evidence from the fossil record, and therefore relies on geological dating methodology,

This story can be seen at www.physorg.com/print233498054.html and at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110825141635.htm and is derived from the journal Science - at the online Science Express, August 25th.

The mainstream media is either ignoring the potential of the experiment at CERN or is taking, once again, soundbites from the establishment - as if

William Thompson sent the following link, http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/25691/, which is Notre Dame University. It seems that two of its astrophysicists, N Lehner and C Hawk, have

Interesting web site to browse ... www.geneticarchaeology.com, while at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14630012, BBC News reports on a DNA study that overturns earlier genetic research which claimed farmers

theComments on the CLOUD experiment results and a paper in Nature this week, August 25th, are somewhat revealing. Andrew Mountford, author of The Hockey Stick

Previous upbeat press releases from the CERN laboratory near Geneva have now been superceded by a hint of pessimism - see www.physorg.com/print233217858.html and www.physorg.com/print233249414.html. However,

At www.semioticon.com/frontline/bednarik.htm there is another article by Robert Bednarik, on beads and symbolism and the fact that Homo erectus in all likelihood had the capability

In a follow-up to the story of a few days ago on Homo erectus reaching Crete by using boats (see for instance www.physorg.com/print232812463.html). I have

At http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/epistem/web/crisis.html there is a revealing article on dating rock art. In Europe it is the Late Pleistocene cave art of Iberia and southern France

There are some interesting posts over at Thunderbolts. For example, www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2011/arch11/110819.flood.html is about water on Mars - was the erosion caused by water or some

A paper in Earth and Planetary Science Letters ( see www.physorg.com/print232953705.html) has found evidence of a lava plume on now widely distributed pieces of the