In the News

A paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on March 14th has an interesting article on fire use by early humans

A couple of doomsayings - or what might be called some mischief making from environmentalists. Apparently, an ozone hole has developed this week over the

The March 19th Full Moon is being mooted as potentially dangerous as the Moon is slight closer on average than it normal orbit - and

At www.physorg.com/print219060207.html we learn that astronomers are keeping tabs on asteroid Apophis as it approaches a close encounter with the earth in 2029. The position

At http://spaceweather.com March 12th, it is said it is just a coincidence that the earthquake in Japan coincided with a geomagnetic storm - in case

Ever wondered what lives on the bottom of the ocean - or in the bottom waters? A catalogue of deep sea life forms can be

Current Archaeology April 2011 ... has a report on the discovery of a Neolithic chambered tomb on South Ronaldsway in the Orkneys that was quarried

As long suspected by some people there was already a long distance road system in Britain before the arrival of the Romans. The latter was

It seems we can be assured that plate tectonics can explain the peculiar geology of Tibet - which must mean some other geologists disagree. The

At www.startribune.com/world/117655908.html is a story on the discovery of prehistoric stone tools found high in the mountains of northern Greece and thought to be Neanderthal.

More on the tale of Egyptian MK expeditions into the western desert (see www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2011/03/ancient-egyptians-made-arduous-trek-to-Chad-new-research-suggests/ ... The Dakhla Oasis lies 300km west of the Nile Valley and

An interesting post at http://colinmcinnes.blogspot.com/2011/03/dimming-light-of-human-ingenuity.html is all about the history of lighting houses over the last couple of hundred years. It progresses from candles to

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/10/sol-is-finally-waking-up/ is a reference to the present X-flare and unsettled geomagnetic conditions (details derived from www.spaceweather.com). A flare on March 9th, following on from

Gary Gilligan's web site www.gks.uk.com/Horus-falcon-god/ has an update on the Egyptian god Horus - and he disassociates it from the Sun. Horus is generally depicted

At www.bbc.co.uk/science-environment-12665643 we learn that 'modern humans' may have originated in southern Africa according to a genetic study and a paper in PNAS. It seems

At www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/cosmic-ray-origins/ ... it is thought cosmic rays have an origin in distant supernova events - but is this true? An Italian physicist, at the

At http://adhominin.com/index.php?id=9102845726448426623 ... most textbooks and internet sources such as Wikipedia or Britannica define the Aurignacians as the first Homo sapiens to enter Europe, appearing

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news March 7th ... heat from the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus has been found to be much greater than previously deduced.

Redefining the entry into North Africa by pastoralists from Asia, via Sinai, Mathilda (at http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/15/eurasian-y-chromosome-R1b-in-africa/) we find they migrated there some 8000 years ago. In

Another interesting article I picked up from Mathilda (see http://mathildasanthropologyblog/2010/05/16/bayesian-phylogenetic-analysing-of-semitic-languages-identifies-an-early-bronze-age-origin-of-semitic-in-the-near-east/ which may also interest SIS members - who were the semites and where did they