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Aborigine rock paintings of extinct animals and Neolithic wood working skills in Europe

4 October 2010 > Archaeology
Current World Archaeology 43 October 2010 issue ... in the World News section there is a report on rock art found in Arnhem Land which
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The riddle of the stones transported by boats

4 October 2010 > Archaeology
Current World Archaeology October issue, has a news report on the subject of megalithic stones being transported by boat - coracles in fact. Franscesco Benozza
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Plinian eruptions, and Babylonian poems

4 October 2010 > Geology
At http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/clouds-of-fire/ we have a new post that outlines the nature of Plinian volcanic eruptions and their relationship to ignimbrites. Once again the comments are
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Buried in sand in 3500BC

3 October 2010 > Archaeology
Another very good archaeological story turned up today, a house that was buried by sand in around 3500BC (calibrated date) - see www.newsinenglish.no/2010.10.01/archaeologists-find-mini-pompeii/ and assumed
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Ancient Steppe civilisation

3 October 2010 > Archaeology
The Daily Mail and the Sunday Times and various other papers have printed a story about the discovery of swastikas and Aryans with the implication,
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Ptolemy's Germania

3 October 2010 > Archaeology
Spiegel Online at www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,518,720513,00.html says researchers have cracked Ptolemy's map of Germania and that settlements existed at a surprising number of towns some 2000 years
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... and even more on the YD boundary event debate

2 October 2010 > Archaeology
The next day, October 2nd, George Howard posted the Holliday and Meltzer paper at http://cosmictusk.com fully and completely, including an extensive discussion in which a
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Sprites on a video clip

2 October 2010 > Electromagnetism
At NASA's Space Weather.com (see link at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/02/watching-lightning-jets-hit-the-atmosphere/ ) there is a video clip of huge lightning discharges that are striking the ionosphere from thunderstorms below. It
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Lascaux constellations

2 October 2010 > Anthropology
BBC News 'online science editor' Dr David Whitehouse, in 2000, reported on the Ice Age prehistoric map of the night sky on the walls of Lascaux, as
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More on archaeology and the younger Dryas boundary event

2 October 2010 > Archaeology
The University of Arizona at http://uanews.org/node/34499 has issued a news report on the 'cold water on the comet hypothesis' paper. They begin by saying the

Early Palaeo-Indian movements

2 October 2010 > Archaeology
The Wall Street Journal, of all things, has this story at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704644404575482342261278092.html ... in the early Holocene (or even during the Younger Dryas) humans migrated
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Index of Postings in September 2010

1 October 2010 > Dating
September 2010. August 31st ... Other Worlds August 31st ... Nasca Lines ... and water. August 31st ... YD event update August 31st ... K/T
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The Heoliosphere

1 October 2010 > Astronomy
This is a story that has popped up in a variety of media sources and on the blogosphere - including Science Daily. This version of
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A Bahamas treasure-chest found in a hole ... a series of holes.

1 October 2010 > Archaeology
The holes concerned were formerly an Ice Age limestone cave system - much like the Yorkshire holes that cavers like to explore on rope and
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Big Stone Axes for chopping down trees

1 October 2010 > Archaeology
At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/63888/description/Ancient_New_Guinea/ ... it seems that people in what is now New Guinea nearly 50,000 years ago fashioned stone tools known as 'waisted axes' which
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The Eemian again - same article, different take

1 October 2010 > Climate change
At  http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/01/ there is a post with the title '2 Degrees' - the amount our Canute like EU and US leaders think they are able
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The God King Scenario

1 October 2010 > Mythology
At www.gks.uk.com Gary Gilligan has the second book of his series, the God King Scenario, available - with a link to Amazon. There is a
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A step closer to the Big Bang? and creating a black hole in the laboratory

30 September 2010 > Physics
At www.physorg.com/print204957530.html an analysis of what has been happening at the Large Hadron Collider in the last couple of months has been submitted to the
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The names of the Pharaohs - titles and epithets

30 September 2010 > Ancient history
SIS member Gary Gilligan sent this link in - www.gks.uk.com/gks18/ which might not be everyone's cup of tea but is worth taking a look at. I
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Early Americans

30 September 2010 > Archaeology
The BBC Horizon television series (www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/columbus.html ) on the 24th November of 2004 asked - who were the first people in North America? Where did they
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