In the News

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-king-fossils-kangaroo-island.html ... fossils of a long extinct group of sea creatures known as the trilobites have been found on Kangaroo Island which lies off

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-evidence-scottish-crannogs-thousands.html ... a research article in the upmarket archaeological journal Antiquity (June 2019) DOI:10.15184/aqy2019.41 ... archaeologists with the University of Reading and the University

At https://grahamhancock.com/hancockg18/ ... Muck, Mammoths and Extinctions. Was Alaska the scene of a great cataclysm at the end of the Ice Age. This comes from

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-gravitational-dawn-dome-ceres-volcanic.html ... gravitational data beamed back by the Dawn mission suggests the dome on Ceres is a mud volcano - a mix of salty

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-large-boulders-huge-canyons.html ... river valleys in hilly or mountainous country have the remnants of water surges in them, discarded rocks of various shape and size.

Two interesting posts on noctilucent clouds and the solar minimum - we are currently at the end of one solar cycle and just entering another.

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4163502/climate-change-sparked-m... ... climate change sparked mass ice age extinction event in Australia, 30,000 years ago. From turtles as big as 8 feet across, and

What has been found in the Muck deposits rather than what caused the muck deposits. See for example https://mostlymammoths.wordpress.com/tag/alaska/ ... in 2004 scientists in the

Horses were common animals of the Pleistocene in Eurasia and right across Siberia into North America. At https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/spots-stripes-and-... ... the greatest concentration of cave art

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/06/collapse-and-resilie... ... urban settlements in agriculturally productive valleys and plains in the southern Levant broke down between 2500 and 1950BC (contemporary with the First

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/06/10/site-of-biggest-ever-meteorit... ... some time ago geologists came across evidence of an archaic impact event in NW Scotland but where the crater was situated eluded

This is an interesting piece of research as it has been suggested the chalk formations have a connection with planktonic blooms - but what might

At https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/the-curious-case-of-dr-miskolczi/ ... Dr Ferenc Mark Miskolczi was an astrophysicist working for NASA. Part of his job was to analyse radiosonde data and his curiosity

Interesting one at https://phys.org/news/2019-06-ridge-radio-emissions-galaxy-clusters.html ... an article in the journal Science by an international team describe how they found a ridge of radion emissions joining

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/06/07/Earths-mantle-is-magnetic-res... ... which is derived from www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/06/06/Earths-mantle-is-magnetic-researcher... ... most scientists have thought in terms of the Earth's magnetism powered by materials in the core

This promised to be fascinating, a headline claiming a herd of dinosaurs had been discovered in an opal mine in New South Wales. Turns out

Round Up begins with horses - engraved on a stone. At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/06/prehistoric-stone-en... ... archaeologists in SW France have found a slab of sandstone at an

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/06/what-happened-to-anc... .... Helike was a famous Greek city that sunk into the coastal mud of the Gulf of Corinth in 373BC during a terrible

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/06/new-genes-out-of-not... ... how do new genes and functional proteins arise and develop? This is an important question to answer as far as evolutionary biology

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/05/ancient-dna-tells-st... ... ancient dna tells the story of the first herders in East Africa. A collorative study published in the journal Science (by archaeologists,