Below are some stories from a new decade in the world of rock.
1) Hand axes excavated on Crete suggest hominids made sea crossings to go 'out of Africa'
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/53219/title/Ancient_hominids_may_have_been_seafarers
2) An complex of cairns, stone rows and a stone circle are found when a reservoir's waters were lowered.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/devon/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8353000/8353334.stm
3) New research shows that the ancients had a navigational system that helped them travel around Britain.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1240746/Prehistoric-sat-nav-set-ancestors-Britain.html
4) A study of standing stones at Stanton Drew in Britain.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8454000/8454448.stm
The resulting geophysical report:
http://server14.web-mania.com/[...]ophysics/StantonDrewScreen.pdf
5) Stone structures on the Orkney Islands
" The people who built it had a skill that still baffles archaeologists. They had no iron, no wheels, and yet they dragged vast slabs of stone through bog and field to build a structure that seems to speak of magic, of a forgotten power. Maeshowe is precisely orientated so that in the days around midwinter rays from the setting sun slide across the low Orkney hills before shining directly up the entrance tunnel."
http://www.heraldscotland.com/life-style/travel-outdoors/on-a-mission-to-crack-the-norse-code-1.997762
6) Petroglyphs on a stone found in North Yorkshire are very similar to those found on the Kogi "map stone" which was found in Colombia.
http://standingstones.tv/2010/01/13/unique-rock-carving-found-amongst-archaeology-after-moors-fire/
7) Vandalism found near a rock art site in Yuma, AZ
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=11812292
8) "Satellite imagery of deforested sections of the upper Amazon Basin revealed more than 200 geometric earthworks."
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/astonishing-ancient-amazon-civilization-discovery-detailed.html
9) "Chronicle", a BBC TV Archeological series now can be viewed online. 14 episode are available. http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/chronicle/index.shtml
10) Divers will search for a "pre-Ice Age culture of some sophistication" in the Bahamas
http://www.standard.net/topics/sports/2010/01/10/divers-seeking-lost-continent-atlantis-bahamas
Rock on!
Rob
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