[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 6-19-26

Sat Jun 20 22:21:45 PDT 2026

*Weekly Science Report*

*June 19, 2026*

*“Archaeology gives us the power to ask questions of the past and of
ourselves, about how we got here, what our values are, and the tools to
choose whether and how we bring them forward with us into the future.”*

Dr. Marcy Rockman

Introduction

Steve Detwiler created this publication with the support of Graham Hancock
and the late John Anthony West to share news and information on various
disciplines to include but not limited to paleontology, space sciences,
genetics, and archaeology.  His goal behind sharing this publication has
always been very simple, by sharing knowledge we can make our world a
better place.  This publication is Mr. Detwiler’s contribution to bring
people together and share ideas and discoveries with his fellow humans.

I hope you enjoy this publication and that the content challenges and
inspires you!

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News Articles   *Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies*

Some Australian Aboriginal stories may remember coastlines that vanished
beneath the sea over 10,000 years ago. Researchers think they could be
among humanity’s oldest surviving true stories.

https://spacedaily.com/t-some-australian-aboriginal-stories-may-remember-coastlines-that-vanished-beneath-the-sea-over-10000-years-ago-researchers-think-they-could-be-among-humanitys-oldest-surviving-true-stories/

Humans may have discovered fire hundreds of thousands of years before
previously thought: new research

https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/science/humans-may-have-used-fire-hundreds-of-thousands-of-years-earlier/

12,000-Year-Old Pottery Found in Turkey May Rewrite History of Early
Ceramics

https://greekreporter.com/2026/06/17/pottery-turkey-history-early-ceramics/

The oldest known plague outbreak struck hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/plague-outbreak-oldest-hunter-gatherers

Denisovan DNA influences the immune systems of modern Oceanians — but
researchers aren't sure why

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/denisovan-dna-influences-the-immune-systems-of-modern-oceanians-but-researchers-arent-sure-why

Did Neanderthals use rhinoceros teeth as tools?

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-neanderthals-rhinoceros-teeth-tools.html

Humans Lived in the High Pyrenees for Over 10,000 Years

https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/humans-lived-in-the-high-pyrenees-for-over-10000-years

'A completely different story': 300 million-year-old fossils reveal the
first vertebrate land dwellers weren't what we thought, researchers claim

https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/a-completely-different-story-300-million-year-old-fossils-reveal-the-first-vertebrate-land-dwellers-werent-what-we-thought-researchers-claim

An unusual strategy helps some tropical butterflies live 25 times longer
than their relatives

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/science/tropical-butterfly-longevity

*History*

Famed historian Gordon S. Wood struck, killed in East Providence

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/famed-historian-gordon-s-wood-struck-killed-in-east-providence/

As the U.S. turns 250, this historian has blunt advice: 'America has to
grow up'

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/15/nx-s1-5856348/america-250-eddie-glaude

Ancient DNA From Iberian Newborns Reveals 600 Years of Genetic Stability
Before Roman Rule

https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/ancient-dna-from-iberian-newborns-reveals-600-years-of-genetic-stability-before-roman-rule

Canary Island relics offer new clues into how North African cultures
adapted to ocean living

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-canary-island-relics-clues-north.html

Unearthed bathhouse reveals a thriving Roman Nijmegen: 'The Romans did not
regard this city as a backwater'

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-unearthed-bathhouse-reveals-roman-nijmegen.html#google_vignette

America’s 150th Birthday Celebration Was Deemed the Nation’s ‘Greatest
Flop.’ What Went Wrong With the Sesquicentennial?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-150th-birthday-celebration-was-deemed-the-nations-greatest-flop-what-went-wrong-with-the-sesquicentennial-180988946/

Here’s How the Obama Presidential Center Is Different From Other
Presidents’ Museums

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/heres-how-the-obama-presidential-center-is-different-from-other-presidents-museums-180988974/

*Archaeology*

Solstice-aligned 5,000-year-old monument ‘once in a lifetime find’, say
archaeologists

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/18/solstice-aligned-monument-archaeology-wiltshire-stonehenge-prototype?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawSi-BFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFYUXozQldhajc0ZXV4VnBCc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHiDsmT-ytpY16sAzUSeSEZDa1ORwnwDTxVC-EZN3WFoKmEYg8GKA5ma4_y8e_aem_Twp3TUpNLgqEgyRblCgWgw#Echobox=1781764384

Ditch full of 7,000-year-old headless human skeletons discovered in
Slovakia, baffling archaeologists

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ditch-full-of-7-000-year-old-headless-human-skeletons-discovered-in-slovakia-baffling-archaeologists

2,000 years ago in Scotland, people removed a corpse's brain and fashioned
the arm bones into tools

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-000-years-ago-in-scotland-people-removed-a-corpses-brain-and-fashioned-the-arm-bones-into-tools

Workers Dredging the Savannah River Stumbled Upon 19 Cannons That Had Been
Underwater Since the Revolutionary War

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/workers-dredging-the-savannah-river-stumbled-upon-19-cannons-that-had-been-underwater-since-the-revolutionary-war-180988928/

5,000-year-old burial of man with battered skull found in kiln in Germany —
and he may have been a human sacrifice

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/5-000-year-old-burial-of-man-with-battered-skull-found-in-kiln-in-germany-and-he-may-have-been-a-human-sacrifice

Secrets of the Serpent

https://archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2026/features/secrets-of-the-serpent/

*Egyptology*

What Archaeologists Found While Searching for a Buried Second Sphinx in
Egypt

https://www.vice.com/en/article/what-archaeologists-found-while-searching-for-a-buried-second-sphinx-in-egypt/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSR3ItleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETExc2hyOTVLZDRsN2o4anlUc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkAoKP2S2OdbDboR_FK_g6MfDLskp7nVtazX-4qf2kpSlsF9bvkjRZV4esfm_aem_rGrFlV3vcrRX1aah6jyztg

A 26th Dynasty discovery: New architectural elements of Old Qasr Temple in
Bahariya Oasis unearthed

https://english.ahram.org.eg/UI/Front/Inner.aspx?NewsContentID=571178

Egypt's First Queen

https://archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2026/features/egypts-first-queen/

*General Science*

Nothing to report

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*   NASA Sets Launch Date for Roman Space
Telescope
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/nasa-sets-launch-date-for-roman-space-telescope/
  NASA names 4 astronauts on the 'highly complex' Artemis III lunar
training mission
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/09/nx-s1-5851860/nasa-artemis-iii-crew   'Crystals'
of space-time could be the origins of certain rare black holes, theoretical
study hints
https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/crystals-of-space-time-could-be-the-origins-of-certain-rare-black-holes-theoretical-study-hints
  Trouble near the Milky Way: The Large Magellanic Cloud is ripping its
smaller neighbor galaxy apart
https://www.space.com/astronomy/galaxies/trouble-near-the-milky-way-the-large-magellanic-cloud-is-ripping-its-smaller-neighbor-galaxy-apart
  5 Absurd Space Myths That NASA Helped Debunk
https://www.bgr.com/2188631/absurd-space-myths-nasa-debunked/    How
Japanese scientists sent a real-life Transformer to the moon

https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/how-japanese-scientists-sent-a-real-life-transformer-to-the-moon

Humans will soon be able to spend longer in space

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/13/nasa-humans-spend-longer-in-space/

Revised Artemis lunar lander plans take shape
https://spacenews.com/revised-artemis-lunar-lander-plans-take-shape/

A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA is racing to rescue it

https://www.science.org/content/article/space-telescope-falling-earth-nasa-racing-rescue-it?utm_campaign=Science&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ownedSocial

Famous “Pink Planet” harbors a salty surprise

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1132425

Saturn’s icy moon ideal place to settle, establish rest stop for trips into
deep space: NASA

https://nypost.com/2026/06/20/science/saturns-moon-an-ideal-place-for-interplanetary-gas-station-study/

A body on the edge of our Solar System has an atmosphere – and scientists
still aren't sure how that's possible

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/2002-xv93-atmosphere

NASA should build a biocontainment facility on the moon to protect Earth,
researchers advise

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-nasa-biocontainment-facility-moon-earth.html

In 1908, something exploded above the remote Siberian forest of Tunguska
with enough force to flatten roughly 2,000 square kilometres of trees — and
more than a century later, no impact crater has ever been found, because
the object, probably a small asteroid, appears to have blown itself apart
in the atmosphere.

https://spacedaily.com/t-in-1908-something-exploded-above-the-remote-siberian-forest-of-tunguska-with-enough-force-to-flatten-roughly-2000-square-kilometres-of-trees-and-more-than-a-century-later-no-impact-crater/

It’s Official: Voyager 1 Will Cross The 1 Light-Day Threshold On November
18, 2026

https://www.iflscience.com/its-official-voyager-1-will-cross-the-1-light-day-threshold-on-november-18-2026-82733

Meet ERNEST, NASA’s Next-Generation Rover Designed to Be Faster and Tougher

https://gizmodo.com/meet-ernest-nasas-next-generation-rover-designed-to-be-faster-and-tougher-2000774216

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529078-mysterious-cold-blob-in-the-atlantic-suggests-the-amoc-is-weakening/

Reef relief: Scientists map 165,000km² of climate resilient coral

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/reef-relief/

Climate change is now causing more local extinction in temperate regions
than the tropics, surprising study shows

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1132650

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*   Whales are showing up in San
Francisco Bay. New ship alerts could help protect them

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/08/nx-s1-5828784/gray-whales-ship-strikes-san-francisco-bay-climate

Bumblebees have tiny brains but they can solve problems like chimps and
elephants

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/07/nx-s1-5846947/bumblebees-problem-solving-research

An ancient whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean teems with life

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/ancient-whale-graveyard-indian-ocean-teems-life-rcna349560?fbclid=IwY2xjawSbEzNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFyY0U4dzJnRTZGMXNiTkRGc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHndMNPejwYMMTQnv9Hv98jTTmsbCegvnPqsztTwjViU9ZE5on5LeHvnBW2N0_aem_TCltWAD6GcaEGRGt1_5gww

Dino-killing asteroid may have fueled underground life for 8 million years
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-dino-asteroid-fueled-underground-life.html#google_vignette
  Scientists just found something weird inside moss

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1132663

Humans may have hidden regenerative powers

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260617032207.htm

*Other*

Alien first contact: how the new rules differ from science fiction

https://theconversation.com/alien-first-contact-how-the-new-rules-differ-from-science-fiction-278394

Additional Informational

A STEP Grant update: Growing our understanding of deep-space agriculture

https://www.planetary.org/articles/a-step-grant-update-growing-our-understanding-of-deep-space-agriculture?utm_campaign=downlink&utm_medium=email&utm_source=20260612&s_src=downlink&s_subsrc=20260612

What we know about Artemis III: NASA announces crew

https://www.planetary.org/articles/what-we-know-about-artemis-iii-nasa-announces-crew?utm_campaign=downlink&utm_medium=email&utm_source=20260612&s_src=downlink&s_subsrc=20260612

Merciless Indian Savages: America 250 Through an Indigenous Lense Facebook
Live, July 2

https://www.facebook.com/events/4420909874818432/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D
<https://www.facebook.com/events/4420909874818432/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A%5b%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D%5d%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D>

Periodic radio and X-ray emission from an accreting white dwarf binary

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02882-x

Robotic Spacecraft for Swift Boost Mission Arrives at NASA Wallops

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/06/05/robotic-spacecraft-for-swift-boost-mission-arrives-at-nasa-wallops/

NASA’s Webb Detects Methane on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/2026/06/01/nasas-webb-detects-methane-on-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas/

Beyond Disclosure Day: The Real-World Protocols

https://www.seti.org/news/beyond-disclosure-day/

STATEMENT: Trump Opens Three Marine National Monuments to U.S. Commercial
Fishing Interests

https://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement-trump-opens-three-marine-national-monuments-to-u-s-commercial-fishing-interests/

Mohenjo daro: Unsealing an Ancient Indus City- Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxyxVgAMM_4

The Planetary Society Announces Winner of Celestial Escape to Mauna Kea
Sweepstakes

https://www.planetary.org/press-releases/the-planetary-society-announces-winner-of-celestial-escape-to-mauna-kea-sweepstakes?utm_campaign=downlink&utm_medium=email&utm_source=20260619&s_src=downlink&s_subsrc=20260619

ESA science missions get green light for new discoveries

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_science_missions_get_green_light_for_new_discoveries

Titan’s Resources and their Utilization

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.06608

Titan, a moon with familiar vistas

https://www.planetary.org/worlds/titan?utm_campaign=downlink&utm_medium=email&utm_source=20260619&s_src=downlink&s_subsrc=20260619

Archaeological evidence of intensive indigenous farming in Michigan’s Upper
Peninsula, USA

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads1643?utm_campaign=Science&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ownedSocial

The Intentional Burial of Egypt | Catherine Ulissey (Schoch) at Cosmic
Summit 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggM4Tny-1-w

NASA’s Lucy Reveals Wobbling, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/nasas-lucy-reveals-wobbling-peanut-shaped-asteroid/

Emergent decadal predictability in Antarctic contribution to sea-level rise

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10614-4
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