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Aborigine rock paintings of extinct animals and Neolithic wood working skills in Europe
4 October 2010 > ArchaeologyCurrent World Archaeology 43 October 2010 issue ... in the World News section there is a report on rock art found in Arnhem Land which
The riddle of the stones transported by boats
4 October 2010 > ArchaeologyCurrent World Archaeology October issue, has a news report on the subject of megalithic stones being transported by boat - coracles in fact. Franscesco Benozza
Plinian eruptions, and Babylonian poems
4 October 2010 > GeologyAt 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
Buried in sand in 3500BC
3 October 2010 > ArchaeologyAnother 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
Ancient Steppe civilisation
3 October 2010 > ArchaeologyThe Daily Mail and the Sunday Times and various other papers have printed a story about the discovery of swastikas and Aryans with the implication,
Ptolemy's Germania
3 October 2010 > ArchaeologySpiegel 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
... and even more on the YD boundary event debate
2 October 2010 > ArchaeologyThe 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
Sprites on a video clip
2 October 2010 > ElectromagnetismAt 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
Lascaux constellations
2 October 2010 > AnthropologyBBC 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
More on archaeology and the younger Dryas boundary event
2 October 2010 > ArchaeologyThe 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 > ArchaeologyThe 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
Index of Postings in September 2010
1 October 2010 > DatingSeptember 2010. August 31st ... Other Worlds August 31st ... Nasca Lines ... and water. August 31st ... YD event update August 31st ... K/T
The Heoliosphere
1 October 2010 > AstronomyThis is a story that has popped up in a variety of media sources and on the blogosphere - including Science Daily. This version of
A Bahamas treasure-chest found in a hole ... a series of holes.
1 October 2010 > ArchaeologyThe holes concerned were formerly an Ice Age limestone cave system - much like the Yorkshire holes that cavers like to explore on rope and
Big Stone Axes for chopping down trees
1 October 2010 > ArchaeologyAt 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
The Eemian again - same article, different take
1 October 2010 > Climate changeAt 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
The God King Scenario
1 October 2010 > MythologyAt 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
A step closer to the Big Bang? and creating a black hole in the laboratory
30 September 2010 > PhysicsAt 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
The names of the Pharaohs - titles and epithets
30 September 2010 > Ancient historySIS 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
Early Americans
30 September 2010 > ArchaeologyThe 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