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Big news this last week - mud wasp nests have been used to establish a date for certains types of Aboriginal rock art out in

An article submitted to The Lancet on February 3rd claims the coronavirus may have nothing to do with bats or snakes but may have arrived

At www.irishcentral.com/news/bronze-age-settlement-galway ... a recent Atlantic storm has uncovered a Bronze Age dwelling at Spiddal in Co Galway. It is a potential crannog - a

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-firewalkers-of-k... ... the Karoo Basin of southern Africa has massive deposits of ignaeous rocks, left behind by basalt flows dated Early Jurassic. It coincided

This concerns the origin of pottery in East Asia rather than pottery in other parts of the world - which may or may not have

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-curious-curiouser-meteorite-chunk-unexpect... ... a chunk of a meteorite seems to contain interstellar material which is said to have formed before the Sun came into being

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/siberian-neanderthal... .... a new study in PNAS reveals that Neanderthals trekked as far north as the Altai Mountains in Siberia, carrying with them a

At https://spaceweather.com (January 29th 2020) we have dunes in the sky, a form of aurora rippling through the northern skies. A paper published in the

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 turned the brains of one of its victims into glass, we are told - see https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/mount-vesuvius-blast... ... and

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/clays-in-antarctica-... ... change in the Antarctic from 35 million years ago is said to chronicle past climate change. That is the necessary nod of

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-riddle-heavenly.html ... Cosmic lightning is happening all around us we are told. Somewhere in the sky there is a pulse that flashes and extinguishes

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/3000-year-old-teeth-... ... 3000 year old teeth from skeletons buried in Vanuatu were analysed and microscopic traces of banana and other plants were found in

At https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/21/asia/budj-bim-australia-bushfire-intl... ... the recent bushfires in Victoria (2020) have revealed some interesting archaeology, a series of water channels created by Aborigines in order to

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-microbial-mayhem-chicxulub-crater.html ... it was microbial mayhem in the Chicxulub crater - according to a paper published in the journal Geology (https://doi.org/10.1130/G46799.1 ) and in

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-auks-pacific.html ... a 700,000 year old fossil bone indicates a close relative of the little auk, now confined to the North Atlantic, once thrived

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-ancient-dairy-mystery-modern-food.html ... it begins by telling us the armies of Genghis Khan fed on dried curd as they waged war and destruction on their

William sent in the link www.yahoo.com/news/oldest-impact-crater-on-earth-found-and-it-could-thro... ... which concerns the discovery of a big, if not gi-normous crater, which it is calculated, occurred roughly at

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2364281/ ... we learn about a strange configuration of pits spotted by aerial archaeology at Crothes Castle in Scotland. It is said to be

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-scientists-evolving-energy-solar-flare.html ... (and see https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax6874) ... at the back end of 2017 a massive new region of magnetic activity produced a series of potent

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/in-death-of-dinosaur... ... in death of the dinosaurs it was all about the asteroid - not the volcanoes. At last, some realism.  Yale assistant professor