Its peer-reviewed, written by an internationally known expert in the field of early language. His academic credentials are unassailable. ...But it's not written in english, so will the "reconstructionists" ignore it? Via the always spot-on Language Continuity Blog: The authors use cautious language, but this is actually a complete demolition ( Read more... )

Terms the article will studiously avoid using:  Pictish, Fairy.

Stone Age temple found in Orkney is 800 years older than Stonehenge - and may be more important

Note the 15 foot-thick walls, and the site located on an easily defensible strip of land with clear view of water on 3 sides.  Read:  Someone was scared of something... seriously.   These ( Read more... )

The old paradigms get tossed away slowly, and it takes a loooooong time to filter down into the general public awareness.   Things that advanced researchers knew/suspected years ago are eventually released into the general public -- takes awhile for them to catch up with the implications though.     Let's see an example:

"An archeological treasure ( Read more... )

Turns out King Tutenkhamen, of Egypt, was a european.     We've known this for quite awhile (at least a couple of decades), and that the entire royal lineage at the time of Egypt's greatest peak of civilization was of European orgin.   That ain't new.

What's new is how common his lineage remains in Europe, and how entirely unrelated he was (99.9% ( Read more... )

Is getting harsher.   Loving this last sentence:

"This article presents the initial results from the S2AGES database of calibrated radiocarbon estimates from western Europe in the period
25,000-10,000 years ago. Our aim is to present a population history of this sub-continental region by providing a chronologically-secure
framework for the ( Read more... )

Up and comers on the front edge of academic research:   this is the best of the best.

1)
A B.A. Dissertation about the PCP has been presented to the University of Bologna, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, by Giacomo Mazza, under the supervision of Francesco Benozzo.

In his dissertation, G. Mazza discusses Carlo Ginzburg's "Siberian ( Read more... )

 
The celts built Stonehenge, and all the other megaliths.     Of course, that depends on how you define "celt".

For decades, the definition was based on an arbitrary (and false) idea of an aryan race who invaded and conquered/assimilated/engulfed any indigenous western europeans.   Later on that aryan label was re-named "proto-indo-european", ( Read more... )

Did i call it, a couple of years back?  Yep.    Folks thought it was crazy talk, now its mainstream news.

give it time, its coming.

Scotland referendum to split from the UK?

Update:   as long as this goes on, and there are reeeeally rich windsors down south throwing cash around, the next fight will continue to build.   One day (soon) its gonna go ( Read more... )

Mexico is on the list of the next "egypt" spot.

Yep. 

Update: 
       and that's gonna be interesting up here, starting tomorrow. Best to stock up. 

Normal?  Happens all the time?   ...  uh, no.

"Nothing like this has ever been seen in this magnitude in Bolivia. Inhabitants of riverside communities report the smell is nauseating and can be detected as far as a kilometer away from river banks.

6 million dead fish, alligators, turtles and dolphins floating down Bolivian rivers
Over 1 million ( Read more... )