The complexity of paleomagnetic pole flipping
Scott Johnson writes at Ars Technica about the Brunhes-Matuyama boundary: “The last magnetic pole flip saw 22,000 years of weirdness”.
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Reinforcing the antiquity of hominins in China
In Nature yesterday, Zhaoyu Zhu and collaborators published a paper describing the paleomag chronology of Shangchen, a site in Lantian county, China. The old...
Link: Archaeomagnetism in Iron Age contexts in southern Africa
Michael Greshko in National Geographic has written a neat story about the hunt for southern hemisphere records of Earth’s magnetic field: “What Ancient Afric...
The hominin invasion of China
Earlier this month, Scientific Reports included an article by Hong Ao and colleagues reporting a date for the Shangshazui archaeological locality in the Nihe...