Are these Danish cities older TPT?

FTA: "Urban development is one of those areas that's very difficult to pin down because it's at the border between archaeology and history—

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-danish-cities-older-previously-thought.html#jCp

"Sometimes you have to take a deep breath and look again. And I think that's the case here," 

More water into the earth's interior TPT

The Earth is eating its oceans: 

As Earth's tectonic plates dive beneath one another, they drag three times as much water into the planet's interior as previously thought.

Those are the results of a new paper published today (Nov. 14) in the journal Nature.

FTA: The water cycle at subduction zones remains poorly understood.

Even Colder than Scientists Thought.

Even with CO2 levels exceeding 400ppm and left wing politicians frantic to restrict energy use and human freedom, the Antarctic region continues to show record low temperatures  as low as any possible even at 280 ppm CO2.  Interesting reading.   And commentary at WUWT.

An inconvenient truth.

Here is also a link to the primary report (which may have limited time free access.)

FTA:  Plain Language Summary The lowest measured air temperature on Earth is 89.2 °C ( 129 F) on 23 July 1983, observed at Vostok Station in Antarctica (Turner et al., 2009, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012104). However, satellite data collected during the Antarctic polar night during 2004–2016 reveal a broad region of the high East Antarctic Plateau above Vostok that regularly reaches snow surface temperatures of 90 °C and below. These occur in shallow topographic depressions near the highest part of the ice sheet, at 3,800 to 4,050-m elevation. Comparisons with nearby automated weather stations suggest that air temperatures during these events are near 94 ± 4 °C or about 138 F. Ultracold conditions (below 90 °C) occur more frequently when the Antarctic polar vortex is strong. This temperature appears to be about as low as it is possible to reach, even under clear skies and very dry conditions, because heat radiating from the cold clear air is nearly equal to the heat radiating from the bitterly cold snow surface.

“More Complex Than Previously Thought”

Interesting blog posting on the idea of science and new discoveries.  Usually 'More' seldom 'less' complex TPT.

FTA: The pursuit of science is an interesting beast. It’s awesome to distill our world down to a basic set of principles…laws, rules, and theorems that explain, or at the very least describe, how things work. On the other hand, the more you dig into things, the more interesting and surprising they can be. Previous notions end up being overturned, or perhaps even more frequently, the accepted phenomenon turns out to be “more complex than previously thought.”

...

New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids' construction

New insights into ancient Egypt.

FTA...  the job of hauling into place the huge blocks of stone used to build the monuments may have been completed more quickly than previously thought.

Are these Danish cities older than previously thought?

Rethinking common knowledge is not only for the Americas.


FTA: "Sometimes you have to take a deep breath and look again. And I think that's the case here,"

  Summary article about this original citation:

 Mads Runge et al. The origins of Odense – new aspects of early urbanisation in southern Scandinavia, Danish Journal of Archaeology (2018). DOI: 10.1080/21662282.2018.1475891 

LiDAR Scans Reveal Maya Were Far Bigger and More Complex Than Thought

FTA: Discover  summary of a Science paper

:  “It’s amazing. It’s so new. This is the kind of thing that no one ever suspected to show up,” says Michael Coe, a Yale University archaeologist and Maya scholar who’s not involved with the team. “It’s a major discovery.”

my comment: Looking back through my links on this blog, this has been a recurring theme recently.  It takes awhile before things change from TPT to common knowledge.

Aztec human sacrifices were far more widespread and grisly TPT

FTA: In 2015 archaeologists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) found a gruesome 'trophy rack' near the site of the Templo Mayor,

FTA: Now, they say the find was just the tip of the iceberg, and that the 'skull tower' was just a small part of a massive display of skulls known as Huey Tzompantli...

Another TPT story without using the words TPT !! " every textbook has to be rewritten"

Laser scanning reveals 'lost' ancient Mexican city 'had as many buildings as Manhattan'

: “Everywhere you point the lidar instrument you find new stuff, and that is because we know so little about the archaeological universe in the Americas right now,” he said. “Right now every textbook has to be rewritten, and two years from now[they’re] going to have to be rewritten again.”

Sprawling Maya network... scale greater TPT

Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Maya ruins in Guatemala in a major archaeological breakthrough.


...He believes the scale and population density has been "grossly underestimated and could in fact be three or four times greater than previously thought".

other quiotes
"I think this is one of the greatest advances in over 150 years of Maya archaeology,"

"Everything is turned on its head," 

See the article at the link.